The Powerplant Of The Future

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Comment by chris seymour on November 12, 2009 at 8:07pm

A Shell gas-to-liquids plant in Malaysia makes petrochemical feedstock and ultra-clean diesel. An Anchorage-based development company proposes do build a similar structure in Alaska.

An Anchorage-based development company says there are other ways to market North Slope natural gas rather than put it in a pipe and ship it to the Lower 48 or to a liquefied natural gas plant in Valdez.

If U.S. markets are too saturated with natural gas and world markets have a surplus of LNG, Alaska gas could instead be converted to high-quality liquid products like ultra-clean diesel or petrochemicals.

The state could receive several times the value for its royalties than it would if it were sold just as natural gas, says Richard Peterson, president of Alaska Natural Gas-to-Liquids Co., an organization formed by Peterson and several partners in 1998

http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/103009/oil_img10_001.shtml

Comment by chris seymour on November 10, 2009 at 9:35pm

http://www.hart-isee.com/index.php?page=synfuels--ctl-gtl-technologies

Comment by chris seymour on November 10, 2009 at 9:07pm

Tomorrow’s Syngas to Products Business

http://www.fossil.energy.gov/international/Publications/ucg_1106_bp.pdf

Comment by chris seymour on November 10, 2009 at 9:03pm

As a generalisation GTL is not competitive when compared to conventional oil production and is not easily transported. There are two methods for converting gas to liquid; direct and indirect.

The direct conversion of methane (usually 85 to 90% of natural gas) avoids the cost of producing Synthesis gas (syngas) however it has high activation energy and is difficult to control.

The indirect conversion method can be done using the Fischer Tropsch Synthesis or via methanol. As such GTL and CTL share the same technology (Fischer-Tropsch)

http://www.hart-isee.com/index.php?page=synfuels--ctl-gtl-technologies