Tracking feedstock production with micro scale gas-to-liquid units
US8293805B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 29, 2008 |
| Grant date | Oct 23, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 25, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E50/30
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of tracking production from an NG source that includes the steps of providing one or more micro-scale GTL units, feeding NG from the source to the micro-scale GTL units, operating the micro-scale GTL units and adjusting the number of micro-scale GTL units employed to track or match the production from the source is provided. In some aspects of the invention, the micro-scale GTL unit includes both syngas manufacture and liquid product synthesis. The liquid product synthesis step may produce methanol, mixed higher carbon number alcohols, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids, and/or any combination of these products.
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