On the Progress of the Gas Manufacturing Technology from Coal and Heavy Residual in Japan

Abstract

Since the first oil embargo in 1973, the energy situation has made a drastic change in Japan and other part of the world.
The international market of supply and demand for oil is likely to be tightened as a long-term prospect, even though slackened in a short span of term.
It is imperative for Japan to fill up a gap between supply and demand for petroleum products and develop oil-alternative energies.
This essay includes-
1) How the development has been made of gasifying technologies from coal and oil in Japan sinceafter 1950's.
2) Reviewing the present and future progress of said technologies utilizing heavy residual and coal as feedstocks, together with pointing out several problems we are faced at present and future in introducing of the gasifying technologies and in carrying out the development of novel gasification technologies.