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Fig. 1. The new 100 barrel per day gas to liquid facility will use Velocys microchannel technologies.
Valuable liquid fuels are being produced from gas resources that would otherwise be wasted. Sean Ottewell reports.
Sean Ottewell informa que los combustibles líquidos válidos se producen de los recursos de gas que, de otro modo, se desperdiciarían.
Wertvolle Flüssigtreibstoffe werden aus Gasvorkommen produziert, die sonst nicht nutzbar wären. Sean Ottewell berichtet.
Exploiting small scale gas-to-liquids
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maller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology based on the use of microchannel steam methane reforming (SMR) followed by Fischer-Tropsch
(FT) synthesis offers a promising option for producing valuable liquid fuels from gas resources that would otherwise be wasted. Tese include associated gas and stranded gas located far from existing infrastructure. Now a commercial agreement has
been executed between PTT, the national energy company of Tailand and Velocys (formerly Oxford Catalysts), to proceed with the commercial deployment in Tailand, and other regions, of the company’s smaller scale microchannel GTL technology. PTT is particularly interested in the company’s smaller scale modular GTL technology as a means to monetise associated gas from onshore wells that is currently disposed of by flaring.
Te two companies have been collaborating since late 2009. In February 2010, under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, PTT agreed to provide funding to support the development and commercialisation of Velocys microchannel SMR technology. In 2012, under terms of a research collaboration with Velocys, PTT opened a new experimental facility for testing microchannel reactors at its research institute in Wangnoi, approximately 70 km north of Bangkok. In this next phase of collaboration,
PTT has commissioned Toyo Engineering to conduct a detailed engineering design of a 100 barrel per day (bpd) GTL facility that will include Velocys’ microchannel SMR and FT technologies (Fig. 1). Te location of a facility will be finalised at the end of the FEED study in mid- 2014, depending on the availability of gas resource and synergies with existing facilities.
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