This program is directed at performing experimental and analytical investigations, system designs, and cost estimates to ascertain the feasibility of using aluminosilicate-based getters for controlling alkali in pressurized gasification systems. Its overall objective is to develop a comprehensive plan for evaluating a scaled-up version of the gettering process as a unit operation or as an integral part of a particulate removal device. This report describes work completed on thermodynamic projections, getter selection and qualification, and system performance projections during the second three months of the project. Work on the thermodynamic projections is complete with one exception: estimating alkali stabilities as a function of trace contaminants for various process systems. Getter selection and qualification efforts involved additional kinetic studies utilizing both our bench-scale and TGA units. Finally, system performance projections entailed using available kinetic data on activated bauxite to evaluate two models based on reversible reaction mechanisms. In turn, the models were used to update the size requirements of a full-scale packed bed.