Objective
The project addresses from one site the most critical and costly step to produce liquid fuel from natural gas using conventional routes, e.g. the stage of syngas production, and from the other side explores alternative routes to convert natural gas to liquid transportable products. The general objective is to explore novel and innovative (precompetitive) routes for transformation of natural gas to liquid products, particularly suited for remote areas to facilitate the transport. The aim is an integrated multi-disciplinary approach to develop in a long term vision the next-stage catalysts and related precompetitive technologies for gas to liquid conversion, in fully consistence with the indications of the call. For this reason, we have excluded to consider as part of the project catalytic technologies, such as FT synthesis and hydrocracking. In addition, we have excluded to investigate coal to liquid, both due to environmental impact of the use of coal, and to focus R&D. We have thus focused the project on three cluster lines: 1. new, not conventional routes for catalytic syngas formation from natural gas which include steps of separation by membrane and eventual reuse of byproducts; 2. direct catalytic conversion of methane to methanol/DME; 3. direct catalytic conversion of methane to aromatics under non-oxidative conditions followed by upgrading of the products by alkylation with ethane/propane.
Field of science
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/fossil energy/natural gas
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/fossil energy/coal
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/energy and fuels/liquid fuels
- /natural sciences/chemical sciences/organic chemistry/aliphatic compounds
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
50121 Firenze
Italy
Participants (22)
60486 Frankfurt
75007 Paris 07
67063 Ludwigshafen Am Rhein
51373 Leverkusen
00144 Roma
82000 Kiryat
Participation ended
EN1 3PN London
7034 Trondheim
75794 Paris
28006 Madrid
182 23 Praha
70174 Stuttgart
30167 Hannover
15341 Agia Paraskevi
5612 AE Eindhoven
80333 Muenchen
9000 Gent
2628 CN Delft
30239 Krakow
17122 Nea Smyrnh
17564 N.faliro
00148 Roma