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Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using bio-syngas and CO2

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Title Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using bio-syngas and CO2
 
Creator SRINIVAS, S
MALIK, RANJAN KUMAR
MAHAJANI, SANJAY
 
Subject fischer-tropsch synthesis
biomass
natural gas
hydrocarbons
 
Description While Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) using coal and natural gas in conventional reactors is an almost well-established technology, the production of liquid hydrocarbons from syngas obtained from biomass is in its preliminary stages of commercialization in countries like Germany. With concerns about global warming and ways of disposing of CO2 being searched for, CO2 hydrogenation using FTS to liquid hydrocarbons can act as a CO2 sink. A brief review of FTS using CO2-rich syngas is given in this paper, looking at FTS as a technology that can help reduce global warming and as a process integration alternative. The reverse water gas shift (r-WGS) reaction is vital for CO2 hydrogenation. We have studied the effect of this using an FT kinetic model and have proposed a new flow sheet alternative for FTS using CO2-rich syngas. Simulations suggested that this new process gives better conversion of CO2. The product selectivity and yields from an FT plant are vital to make the process viable economically.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2009-02-18T09:12:47Z
2011-11-25T17:13:27Z
2011-12-26T13:05:58Z
2011-12-27T05:53:55Z
2009-02-18T09:12:47Z
2011-11-25T17:13:27Z
2011-12-26T13:05:58Z
2011-12-27T05:53:55Z
2007
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Energy for Sustainable Development 11(4), 66-71
0973-0826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0973-0826(08)60411-1
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/703
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/703
 
Language en