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Synthetic Fuel Production - Jan 2008
Synthetic Fuel Production - Jan 2008
An Overview
Harold Schobert
Penn State University, January 2008
Examples of synthetic fuels
Hydrocarbon liquids for transportation
Low-sulfur, low-ash solid or liquid boiler
fuels
Substitute natural gas
Methanol
Hydrogen
Why?
Convert an abundant fuel from one form
(e.g. solid) into a form required by existing
infrastructure (e.g., liquids).
Clean up the fuel during conversion, e.g.
reduce sulfur.
Coping with peak oil and the geopolitics
of oil availability.
Conversion of coal into synthetic liquid fuels