The guests will receive an overview of the Pearl GTL effluent treatment plant that treats water using the
Fischer-Tropsch process, and other alternative processes that secrete less pollution than traditional fossil fuels.
The guests will receive an overview of the Pearl GTL effluent treatment plant (ETP) that treats water using the
Fischer-Tropsch process, and other alternative processes that secrete less pollution than traditional fossil fuels.
The
Fischer-Tropsch process converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons.
Based on production, the market is segmented into Methanol to Gasoline (MTG) process, gasoline plus process,
fischer-tropsch process. Based on Size, the market is categorized into small scale and large scale.
The basic technology was developed in Germany in the 1920s as a
Fischer-Tropsch process named after its inventors.
Alternatively, solar thermochemical processes can produce carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water, or both can be produced from the solar steam reformation of methane, and the resulting gas mixture can be used to produce more conventional liquid fuels via the
Fischer-Tropsch process. (That process is used today to make synthetic fuels, but the heat to drive the reactions comes from the combustion of a portion of the fossil fuel feedstocks.) Solar thermochemistry could plausibly produce a significant fraction of the world's transportation fuels in the long-term, as technological advancements continue increasing efficiencies and driving down costs.
South Africa and a few other places use the
Fischer-Tropsch process to create much of their liquid hydrocarbons, with coal as the carbon source.
A Fischer-Tropsch plant has three stages: a gas reformer at the front; a refining unit at the back end (both which involve very conventional, well-understood technology); and a middle unit, a series of gas converters with catalysts that is the heart of the
Fischer-Tropsch process. The gas reformer, the first stage, makes a "synthesis gas" (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) from natural gas.
This makes the method as versatile as the
Fischer-Tropsch process that is already approved, but it requires much lower initial investment.
The current approach of converting natural gas to liquid fuels is through the
Fischer-Tropsch process. This process, though proven, has many challenges due to high capital costs and low conversion efficiencies.
The topics include the development of catalytic processes from terpenes to chemicals, furan-based building blocks from carbohydrates, fats and oils as raw materials for the chemical industry, biomass-to-liquids by the
Fischer-Tropsch process, and carbon dioxide as a valuable source of carbon for chemical and fuels.