Pangea Resourcces Incorporated

Blue Star Sustainable Technologies Corporation

Steven Thomas Harford

Alessandro Giorgio Borsa

Nicholas Ernest Vanderborgh

A mixture of natural gas and air is converted to a C&#x2013;Cdiesel fuel-grade liquid hydrocarbon. The natural gas and air mixture is supplied to the input of a catalytic partial oxidation reactor. The carbon-containing gas output of the catalytic partial oxidation reactor is connected as an input to a first Fischer-Tropsch reactor, to thereby form a first diesel fuel grade C&#x2013;Cliquid hydrocarbon output. A carbon-containing gas output of the first Fischer-Tropsch reactor is connected to the input of a second Fischer-Tropsch reactor, to thereby form a second diesel fuel grade C&#x2013;Cliquid hydrocarbon output. The catalytic partial oxidation reactor contains a platinum group catalyst, a promoted platinum group catalyst, a rhodium catalyst, or a platinum promoted rhodium catalyst. Each of the Fischer-Tropsch reactors contain a catalyst that is made up of from about 3 to about 60 parts-by-weight cobalt and from about 0.1 to about 100 parts-by-weight of at least one metal selected from a group consisting of cerium, lanthanum and ruthenium per 100 parts-by-weight of a support selected from a group consisting of silica, alumina and combinations of silica and alumina, and more preferably a catalyst that is made up of about 20 percent by weight cobalt, about 0.1 percent by weight ruthenium, about 0.1 percent by weight platinum, the remainder being an alumina support.

Apparatus for producing high molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons from methane and/or natural gas

A mixture of natural gas and air is converted to a C -C diesel fuel-grade liquid hydrocarbon. The natural gas and air mixture is supplied to the input of a catalytic partial oxidation reactor. The carbon-containing gas output of the catalytic partial oxidation reactor is connected as an input to a first Fischer-Tropsch reactor, to thereby form a first diesel fuel grade C -C liquid hydrocarbon output. A carbon-containing gas output of the first Fischer-Tropsch reactor is connected to the input of a second Fischer-Tropsch reactor, to thereby form a second diesel fuel grade C -C liquid hydrocarbon output. The catalytic partial oxidation reactor contains a platinum group catalyst, a promoted platinum group catalyst, a rhodium catalyst, or a platinum promoted rhodium catalyst. Each of the Fischer-Tropsch reactors contain a catalyst that is made up of from about 3 to about 60 parts-by-weight cobalt and from about 0.1 to about 100 parts-by-weight of at least one metal selected from a group consisting of cerium, lanthanum and ruthenium per 100 parts-by-weight of a support selected from a group consisting of silica, alumina and combinations of silica and alumina, and more preferably a catalyst that is made up of about 20 percent by weight cobalt, about 0.1 percent by weight ruthenium, about 0.1 percent by weight platinum, the remainder being an alumina support.

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