Gas to Liquids

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Comment by Chris Seymour on March 3, 2010 at 10:30pm

Another great find JS, This is the kind of stuff I like reading about!

Comment by JSGolightly on March 3, 2010 at 4:34pm

I thought this was kind of cool


"Ken Agee was working as a chemical engineer for a pipeline company 23 years ago when he first became interested in finding a way to use surplus natural gas. He read about Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) technology during his lunch breaks and built a homemade reactor in a garden shed in his back yard. Three years later, he quit his job to work on the project full time."

from > http://www.biomassmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=1332

Comment by JSGolightly on February 20, 2010 at 10:24am

United States Patent US2258511 -- Method of Producing Hydrogenated Liquid Hydrocarbon Products.pdf

United States Patent US2248734 -- Manufacture of Hydrocarbon Products By Hydrogenation of Oxides of Carbon.pdf

United States Patent US2224049 -- Process for the Production of Hydrocarbons.pdf

Comment by JSGolightly on February 13, 2010 at 9:14pm

Bench-Scale Production of Hydrocarbon Liquid Fuel from Woody Biomass via Gasification.pdf

very interesting report. they have a desulfurization tower (similar to this i suppose http://www.idswater.com/water/us/ADI_International/Hydrogen_Sulfide_Removal/96_0/g_supplier_1.html) a carbon dioxide removal tower (similar to this perhaps? http://www.uop.com/objects/84CO2RemvbyMembrn.pdf) and, i assume an oxygen plant (as it states its using an "oxygen rich" source.)

One thing worth noting is the down draft gasifier and the use of a woody biomass feedstock. The other thing to notice is the products generated. Look at figure 10 (pg. 6 of 7). Lots of diesel* and kerosene*, FT wax, gasoline, and a lower fraction of water as compared to other designs i've seen. (* the diesel/kerosene mixture also contains the hexadecane or "cetane" solvent from reactor.)

Granted in this case they are using a slurry reactor (and a relatively huge one compared to the amount of production at that), but if that much wood can be turned into that much usable product, well... that's just exciting.

this site (http://car.pege.org/2005-wood/provisional-result.htm) also notes (in very rough english) that they can produce 1 liter of diesel from 5 kg of wood.

(if my math is right roughly a barrel of diesel [42 gallons] from 369.6 lbs of wood ----- somebody check my math 1 kg = approximately; 2.2 lbs, 1 ltr = approximately .25 gallons, 1 barrel equals 42 gallons

therefore: ([2.2lbs][42gallons]/[.25gallons] = xlbs >> x = 369.6) )

Comment by JSGolightly on February 9, 2010 at 2:00pm

Mini-FT Reactor

http://www.snap-tite.com/snaptite_AED/AED_RVIS/products/stirred_reactor/Mini_reactor/index.html

Comment by Chris Seymour on February 3, 2010 at 7:39pm

Fluidized Bed Biomass Gasification with Clay Catalyst:

http://victorygasworks.ning.com/photo/fluidized-bed-biomass?context=user

Comment by Chris Seymour on February 2, 2010 at 9:31pm

Fantastic find, JS!

Comment by JSGolightly on February 2, 2010 at 11:04am

the best instructions i've found on making your own fuel from organic material (lol....)

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Synthetic-Oil

http://www.wikihow.com/Discussion:Make-Your-Own-Gasoline

Comment by JSGolightly on January 31, 2010 at 12:31pm

http://bionicfuel.blogspot.com/2007/04/btl-biomass-to-liquid-for-dummies.html

Comment by JSGolightly on January 29, 2010 at 11:22pm

if verde is making 13.5 barrels of product for every ton of bio-mass consumed, they are way ahead of the competition. the best figures i've seen thus far were 1 barrel of oil for every ton of coal consumed.

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