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Green Petroleum Coke
Green Petroleum Coke (GPC) is used as combustible or raw material, derives from oil refining and is rich in carbon. Petcoke derives from the cracking process in the coker units of a refinery. The raw coke directly out of the coker is often referred to as green coke, in this context, "green" means unprocessed.
Petcoke can either be fuel grade (high in sulfur and metals) or anode grade (low in sulfur and metals).
Petcoke has a higher energy content than coal, and generally have higher levels of sulfur.
Coal
Is a sedimentary rock, used as a combustible or raw material in several industries. Coal is fossil fuel, and is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements like sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and moisture.
The geological processes take place over millions of years, and therefore exists in nature different qualities of coal, like lignite (it is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content), bituminous and anthracite.
Coal is used as an energy resource, primarily for the production of electricity, cement, and also metals refining.
Coal is extracted from nature by coal mining and the main producers are China, United States, India, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Columbia and European Union
Alternative Fuels
Alternative fuels, are known as non-conventional fuels. They are any materials or substances that can be used as fuels, other than conventional fuels like fossil fuels or nuclear materials.
The solid alternative fuel RDF (refuse-derived fuel ) is a common fuel in several industries, like cement industry, and allows to create a sustainable solution for various types of wastes.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development provides a definition:
“Selected waste and by-products with recoverable calorific value can be used as fuels in a cement kiln, replacing a portion of conventional fossil fuels, like coal, if they meet strict specifications. Sometimes they can only be used after pre-processing to provide ‘tailor-made’ fuels for the cement process“.
Liquid Fuels
Gasoline, Diesel and Ethanol
Production of gasoline is achieved by distillation of crude oil in refineries. Gasoline is the most common liquid fuel, and itself is not actually burned, but its fumes ignite, causing the remaining liquid to evaporate and then burn. Diesel is similar to gasoline in that it is a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons extracted from petroleum. After distillation, the diesel fraction is normally processed to reduce the amount of sulfur in the fuel. Ethanol is an alcohol, commonly found in alcoholic beverages, however it may also be used as a fuel, most often in combination with gasoline to reduce the negative environmental effects of gasoline.
Gas Fuels
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Natural gas is mainly converted into liquid (LNG) for logistical reasons. It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the gaseous state (at standard conditions for temperature and pressure).
LNG is predominantly methane (CH4), with some mixture of ethane (C2H6).
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
LPG is mainly mixes of propane (C3H8) and butane (C4H10). The Petroleum Gas is mainly converted into liquid (LPG) for logistical reasons.
Carbon Products
Metallurgical Coke
The majority of the metallurgical coke (or met coke) produced is used in the steel and iron industries and is produced by carbonization of bituminous coal (or good quality cooking coal), in a coke oven with low oxygen atmosphere (>1100ºC).
Calcined Petroleum Coke (CPC)
Is produced in a kiln where a specific high quality of Green Petroleum Coke is heated to high temperatures, to extract moisture and modify the crystalline structure of the coke. CPC is mainly used in aluminum industry. CPC can be further processed in an anode baking oven in order to produce anodes. The anodes are mainly used in the aluminium and steel industry.
