Title : ( Optimal Design of a Gas‐to‐Liquids Process with a Staged Fischer‐Tropsch Reactor )
Authors: Ahmad Rafiee , Mehdi Panahi ,
Full TextAbstract
The optimal design of a natural gas-to-liquid hydrocarbons (GTL) process with a multistage cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch reactor and interstage product separation is considered. The objective function is to maximize the wax (C21+) production rate at the end of the reactor path. Sectioning of the Fischer-Tropsch reactor increases the chain growth probability inside the reactor which results in a higher production of wax. The carbon efficiency of the two-stage reactor is distinctly higher than that of the single-stage reactor.
Keywords
, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, Gas-to-liquid process, Reactor staging, Wax production
@article{paperid:1058315,
author = {Ahmad Rafiee and Panahi, Mehdi},
title = {Optimal Design of a Gas‐to‐Liquids Process with a Staged Fischer‐Tropsch Reactor},
journal = {Chemical Engineering & Technology},
year = {2016},
volume = {39},
number = {10},
month = {October},
issn = {0930-7516},
pages = {1778--1784},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; Gas-to-liquid process; Reactor staging;
Wax production},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Optimal Design of a Gas‐to‐Liquids Process with a Staged Fischer‐Tropsch Reactor
%A Ahmad Rafiee
%A Panahi, Mehdi
%J Chemical Engineering & Technology
%@ 0930-7516
%D 2016
