Introduction.- Early Energy and Industrial Development.- Coal and Steam Engine.- The Search for an Alternative Lighting.- Early Chemistry and Coal Gas Making.- Coal Gas - the Inflammable "Air".- Gases and their Chemistry.- The Era of Gas Lighting.
- Coal Gas - the Illuminating Gas.- Coal Gas Making Business Chemistry, Skills and Coal Gas Making.- Coal Gas Making Process.- Lessons Learned.- Spreading of Coal Gas Lighting.- The Changing Chemistry in Coal Gas Making.- Unlocking the Power of Gas Producer.- Heat, Motion, Caloric, Electricity and their Connection.
- Regenerative Furnace and Metallurgy.- Unleash the Heating Power.- The Enabling Gas Producer and its Chemistry.- Producer Gas and Regenerative Retort.- The Alternative Illuminating Gas.- Coal Gas, Ballooning and Lowe.- Lowe Process for Coal Gas Making.- Deployment of the Lowe Coal Gas Process.
- Vertical Retort, Producer Gas and Water Gas.- Gas Engine and Gas Producer.- External Combustion vs Internal Combustion.- Coal Gas and Gas Engine.- Dowson Gas Producer.- Fertilizer and Coal Gas Making.- Ludwig Mond.- An Unintended Gas Producer.
- Mond Gas, Fuel cell and Nickel.- Mond Gas, Industrial Gas and Electricity.- Chemistry and Industrial Synthesis.-Molecular Theory.- Fundamentals of Coal Gasification.- Water Gas and Industrial Synthesis.- Hydrogen Manufacturing and Ammonia Synthesis.- Liquefaction and Fractioning.
- Syngas Conditioning and Purification.- Hydrogen Making at Oppau.- Reinventing the Making of Coal Gas.- Slagging Gasification.- The Winkler Gasifier.- Creative Making of Syngas.- Special and Integrated Gasification.- Solution to Gasifying Coal Fines.
- Modern Gasification Technology.- The Lurgi Gasifier.- The Search for a Complete Gasification.- Entrained Gasification.- The Long Journey of Energy Transition.- End Notes.- Bibliography.