hydrocarbon and syngas should be included

[sfluegel05]

Description of the issue

this comes from #761

The definition of steam reformer references both hydrocarbon and syngas. Therefore, it would be useful to have them as concepts in our ontology and connect them to steam transformer. A steam reformer is an energy converting device that produces syngas from hydrocarbons such as natural gas.

Hydrocarbon also appears in the definitions of several material entities.

Ideas of solution

• hydrocarbon

  • definition: Hydrocarbon is a portion of matter which is member of class of organic chemical compounds composed only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). (source)
  • classification: subclass of portion of matter, superclass of methane (?)
  • natural gas and oil and petroleum products has part some hydrocarbon
  • has role some fuel role
  • has disposition some combustible energy carrier disposition

• syngas

  • definition: Syngas is a portion of matter which is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide. (source)
  • classification: portion of matter
  • has role some fuel role
  • has disposition some combustible energy carrier disposition

Workflow checklist

• [ ] I discussed the issue with someone else than me before working on a solution
• [ ] I already read the latest version of the workflow for this repository
• [ ] The goal of this ontology is clear to me

I am aware that

• [ ] every entry in the ontology should have a definition
• [ ] classes should arise from concepts rather than from words

[l-emele]

Why do you suggest for syngas material entity and not portion of matter as parent class? We already have other gas mixtures as portion of matter, notably air.

Apart from that I agree to your proposals.

[sfluegel05]

I don't have a reason for this, I assume this was just a mistake. I corrected that now and also made the definitions aristotelian: Syngas is a portion of matter which is a fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide. Hydrocarbon is a portion of matter which is member of class of organic chemical compounds composed only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H).