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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Paul Steven Wallace, Katy, TX (US);
Arnaldo Frydman, Houston, TX (US);
Paul Steven Wallace, Katy, TX (US);
Arnaldo Frydman, Houston, TX (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a carbon-to-liquids system is provided. The method includes receiving a flow of syngas at the carbon-to-liquids system, shifting the syngas to facilitate increasing a hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio (H/CO) of the syngas, adding additional hydrogen to the shifted syngas to increase the H/CO ratio, reacting the hydrogen/shifted syngas mixture with a catalyst in a vessel, extracting hydrogen from the syngas mixture, recycling the hydrogen to facilitate increasing the H/CO ratio, and recycling naphta to act as solvent for wax extraction, and to facilitate catalyst recovery.