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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2011
Gerald P. Huffman, Lexington, KY (US);
Gerald P. Huffman, Lexington, KY (US);
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A new method of producing liquid transportation fuels from coal and other hydrocarbons that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions by combining Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with catalytic dehydrogenation is claimed. Catalytic dehydrogenation (CDH) of the gaseous products (C1-C4) of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) can produce large quantities of hydrogen while converting the carbon to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). Incorporation of CDH into a FTS-CDH plant converting coal to liquid fuels can eliminate all or most of the COemissions from the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction that is currently used to elevate the Hlevel of coal-derived syngas for FTS. Additionally, the FTS-CDH process saves large amounts of water used by the WGS reaction and produces a valuable by-product, MWCNT.