Question

Water gas is also called as syngas

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

Water gas is actually an older terminology. From the view point of composition, they both have the same components: Hydrogen and carbon monoxide, with or without some amount of carbon dioxide. However, what is different is the way they are produced. Water gas was usually produced by passing steam over red hot coke. On the other hand syngas is mainly produced industrially by steam reforming of natural gas that involves catalytic decomposition of methane in steam to give the resultant mixture along with the traditional coal gasification and various other methods.