ConTechs Associates: Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis with Nitrogen-Rich Syngas
The only excerpt we'll submit from this article is the title:
"DIESEL FUEL FROM BOLIVIAN NATURAL GAS BY FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS USING NITROGEN-RICH SYNGAS"
The article focuses specifically on converting natural gas extracted from smaller, "stranded" deposits using, as we have previously suggested to be possible, "miniaturized" and, perhaps, semi-mobile Fischer-Tropsch processors.
Although the article does relate to natural gas, that gas is converted, before F-T processing, into syngas, just as coal would be.
We're not excerpting any passages in this dispatch, Mike, but will summarize one important point that can be surmised from the report:
It is feasible to develop commercial, smaller-scale, less-expensive Fischer-Tropsch conversion units to produce liquid fuels from isolated, even "stranded", deposits of natural hydrocarbons.
As we've suggested, it could be practical, as in the proposed Schuykill, PA, coal mine waste-to-oil project, which we have documented, to "clean up" coal mine waste accumulations, which, as Joe's mid-Seventies WVU research showed, often contain significant remaining organic content. It seems now possible to construct "mobile" coal-to-liquid conversion units to move about West Virginia and eliminate accumulations of mine waste by converting them into much-needed liquid fuels.
We submit this concept in further support of our contention that a fully-fledged coal-to-liquid conversion industry would be extraordinarily beneficial, economically and environmentally, to us, to the US.
