Uhde's experience in gasification
Uhde offers over 65 years’ experience in the development, design and construction of gasification plants. Our list of references already includes over 100 gasifiers worldwide based on different gasification technologies covering a variety of feedstocks, and our expertise continues to grow.
Krupp Koppers, who merged with Uhde in 1997, developed the first entrained-flow gasification system (Koppers-Totzek process) in the early 1940s and built the first commercial Koppers-Totzek plants at the beginning of the 1950s.
Most other entrained-flow gasification systems are refinements of the Koppers-Totzek process – for example, the Shell-Koppers gasification process, an entrained-flow gasification process at elevated pressure. This process was demonstrated at a plant in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 1980s.
Our PRENFLO™ (PRessurised ENtrained-FLOw) technology marks a further development of this process in the late 1980s. Tests at a demonstration plant in Fürstenhausen, Germany, proved that PRENFLO™ can accommodate coals from all over the world as well as petroleum coke without the need for modification. In addition, extensive tests were performed to determine suitable materials of construction. In the late 1990s the world’s largest solid-feed-based IGCC with PRENFLO™ technology started operation in Puertollano, Spain.
In the meantime Uhde received the first license contracts for the PRENFLO™ PDQ process.
- Demonstration plant in Hamburg, Germany
- PRENFLO™ plant in Fürstenhausen, Germany
- PRENFLO™ plant in Puertollano, Spain
Uhde offers over 65 years’ experience in the development, design and construction of gasification plants. Our list of references already includes over 100 gasifiers worldwide based on different gasification technologies covering a variety of feedstocks, and our expertise continues to grow.
Krupp Koppers, who merged with Uhde in 1997, developed the first entrained-flow gasification system (Koppers-Totzek process) in the early 1940s and built the first commercial Koppers-Totzek plants at the beginning of the 1950s.
Most other entrained-flow gasification systems are refinements of the Koppers-Totzek process – for example, the Shell-Koppers gasification process, an entrained-flow gasification process at elevated pressure. This process was demonstrated at a plant in Hamburg, Germany, in the early 1980s.
Our PRENFLO™ (PRessurised ENtrained-FLOw) technology marks a further development of this process in the late 1980s. Tests at a demonstration plant in Fürstenhausen, Germany, proved that PRENFLO™ can accommodate coals from all over the world as well as petroleum coke without the need for modification. In addition, extensive tests were performed to determine suitable materials of construction. In the late 1990s the world’s largest solid-feed-based IGCC with PRENFLO™ technology started operation in Puertollano, Spain.
In the meantime Uhde received the first license contracts for the PRENFLO™ PDQ process.
- Demonstration plant in Hamburg, Germany
- PRENFLO™ plant in Fürstenhausen, Germany
- PRENFLO™ plant in Puertollano, Spain