The Fischer–Tropsch process (FT) is a collection of chemical reactions that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, known as syngas, into...
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Tropsch (October 7, 1889 – October 8, 1935) was a chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of the Fischer–Tropsch process....
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Biomass to liquid (section Fischer–Tropsch process)
exports. The Fischer–Tropsch process is used to produce synfuels from gasified biomass. Carbonaceous material is gasified and the gas is processed to make...
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Gas to liquids (redirect from Mobil process)
(i) direct partial combustion of methane to methanol and (ii) Fischer–Tropsch-like processes that convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen into hydrocarbons...
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Higher alkane (section Fischer-Tropsch process)
fatty acids chain length is usually between C10 and C22. Fischer-Tropsch process (or FT process) consist of the reaction of syngas: a mixture of hydrogen...
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Sasol (section Fischer–Tropsch reactor technology)
coal-to-liquids (CTL) process to be economical and competitive with crude oil, all stages of the operations, from coal mining to the Fischer–Tropsch process and product...
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known for the discovery of the Fischer–Tropsch process. In 1925, he and Hans Tropsch discovered the Fischer–Tropsch process. This allowed for the production...
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Coal gas (section Manufacturing processes)
contain additional calorific gases such as methane, produced by the Fischer–Tropsch process, and volatile hydrocarbons together with small quantities of non-calorific...
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Aviation biofuel (section Certified processes)
solid biomass using pyrolysis processed with a Fischer–Tropsch process (FT-SPK); with an alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) process from waste fermentation; or from...
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process and methanol to gasoline processes such as STG+ are the catalysts used, product types and economics. Generally, the Fischer–Tropsch process favors...
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Coal liquefaction (redirect from Coal liquefaction process)
century. The best-known CTL process is Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FT), named after the inventors Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute...
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coal). He developed the process well before the commonly known Fischer–Tropsch process. Karl Goldschmidt invited him to build an industrial plant at his...
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Synthetic fuel (section Processes)
using the Bergius process (from coal), the Fischer–Tropsch process (water gas), and other methods (Zeitz used the TTH and MTH processes). In 1931 the British...
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chemist, famous for Fischer-Tropsch process Franz Fischer (Schutzstaffel) [nl], (1901–1989), Sturmscharführer Franz Gottwalt Fischer [Wikidata] (1902–1960)...
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Rentech (section Wood processing)
technologies, such as Rentech–SilvaGas Gasification Process and Fischer–Tropsch process based Rentech Process. Rentech was initially formed in 1981 by Charles...
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converted to water gas. Water gas can be converted to oil by the Fischer–Tropsch process. Coal gas from Karrick LTC yields greater energy content than natural...
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Gasification (section Processes)
engines, used to produce methanol and hydrogen, or converted via the Fischer–Tropsch process into synthetic fuel. For some materials gasification can be an...
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3(CO) 9. Methylidyne-like species are implied intermediates in the Fischer–Tropsch process, the hydrogenation of CO to produce hydrocarbons. Methylidyne entities...
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Fischer–Speier esterification Fischer glycosidation Kiliani–Fischer synthesis The Fischer–Tropsch process is named after Franz Emil Fischer, who headed the Max...
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reagent in the 1900s. Three industrial processes illustrate its evolution in industry. In the Fischer–Tropsch process, coal and related carbon-rich feedstocks...
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is via natural analogs of the Fischer–Tropsch process known as the serpentinite mechanism or the serpentinite process. CH4 + ½ O2 → 2 H2 + CO (2n+1)...
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of 50% JP-8, 25% HRJ, and 25% coal-based fuel made through the Fischer–Tropsch process, becoming the first United States Department of Defense aircraft...
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Emil Fischer (1877–1948), chemist, famous for the Fischer-Tropsch process Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782–1854), botanist Fritz Fischer (historian)...
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from carbon (coal) using the Fischer–Tropsch process Diesel fuel can be made from carbon using the Fischer–Tropsch process Biofuels and vegetable oils:...
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Liquefaction of gases (category Industrial processes)
separation The BOC Group Chemical engineer Compressibility factor Fischer–Tropsch process Gas separation Gas to liquids Hampson–Linde cycle Industrial gases...
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Hydroformylation (redirect from Oxo process)
catalysis. The process was discovered by the German chemist Otto Roelen in 1938 in the course of investigations of the Fischer–Tropsch process. Aldehydes...
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Catalysis (section Energy processing)
old but still important process is the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas, which itself is processed via water-gas shift reactions...
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Sabatier reaction (redirect from Sabatier process)
monoxide from hydrocarbon fuels Methane pyrolysis (for Hydrogen) Fischer–Tropsch process – Chemical reactions that convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen...
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had an ample supply. Chemists had invented the Bergius process and the Fischer-Tropsch process to accomplish this goal. Soon plants were built. In 1937...
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petroleum-like synthetic crude oil from coal. The process used by Sasol is based on the Fischer–Tropsch process. It is the largest coal liquefaction plant and...
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