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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Emerging Fuels Technology, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth L. Agee, Tulsa, OK (US);
Assignee:
EMERGING FUELS TECHNOLOGY, INC., Tulsa, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/38 (2006.01); C01B 3/36 (2006.01); C10G 2/00 (2006.01); C10L 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/36 (2013.01); C10G 2/32 (2013.01); C10L 1/04 (2013.01); C01B 2203/025 (2013.01); C01B 2203/061 (2013.01); C01B 2203/1241 (2013.01); C01B 2203/1258 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0492 (2013.01); C10L 2290/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A process to convert light hydrocarbons such as natural gas to a liquid or liquids. Vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) is used to produce a stream of relatively high purity oxygen. The relatively high purity oxygen is reacted with light hydrocarbons and steam in a partial oxidation reactor in order to produce synthesis gas. The synthesis gas is thereafter converted to a hydrocarbon liquid or liquids via a Fischer Tropsch or related reaction.