Process for producing liquid and gaseous products from gaseous reactants

Abstract

A hydrocarbon synthesis process () includes feeding gaseous reactants () into a slurry bed (), allowing the gaseous reactants () to react catalytically, thereby to form liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon products, and subjecting a product mixture comprising liquid product and catalyst particles in a filtration stage to filtration, by passing the liquid product through a filtering medium () to separate catalyst particles from the liquid product. The gaseous products are withdrawn () and cooled to form a multi-phase product which is separated to produce at least a hydrocarbon condensate stream () and a tail-gas stream (). At least a portion of the hydrocarbon condensate stream () is treated () to remove oxygenated components therefrom, producing a backflush condensate. From time to time, the filtering medium () of the filtration stage is backflushed by passing the backflush condensate through the filtering medium ().