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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2007
Moses K. Minta, Missouri City, TX (US);
Edward L. Kimble, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Russ H. Oelfke, Houston, TX (US);
Eric D. Nelson, Houston, TX (US);
Ross Mowrey, Houston, TX (US);
Albrecht Goethe, Seabrook, TX (US);
Moses K. Minta, Missouri City, TX (US);
Edward L. Kimble, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Russ H. Oelfke, Houston, TX (US);
Eric D. Nelson, Houston, TX (US);
Ross Mowrey, Houston, TX (US);
Albrecht Goethe, Seabrook, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
The GTL process of the invention comprises: reacting a combustible carbonaceous material in a syngas reactor, preferably an autothermal reformer, under conditions to produce a synthesis gas; contacting the synthesis gas with an F-T catalyst to form liquid products and a tail gas; separating the tail gas from the liquid products; separating COfrom the light products in the tail gas; recovering the light products as additional products for sale or other use and utilizing at least a portion of the separated COas a feed stream to the syngas reactor.