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Novel Materials and Reactors for Catalytic Conversion of Natural Gas: Environmentally Friendly and Less Capital Intensive Technologies

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Today, natural gas is used primarily as fuel for heating. However, there is a large economic and ecological incentive to convert it to carbon monoxide and hydrogen (synthesis gas) and to use this mixture for the production of chemicals, high-value transportation fuels as well as energy carriers in fuel cells. Currently, the only proven technologies to produce synthesis gas are steam reforming and oxyreforming, which is a combination of steam reforming and partial oxidation. The steam-reforming process has a disadvantage in that it requires a large heat input and the construction of such plants is mechanically complex. Currently available pardal-oxidation processes require little heat input, but have a major drawback with respect to heat management as very high temperatures exist in the initial reactor zone where total oxidation occurs, while the endothermic steam and CO2 reforming occur in the final zone. Whilst current investigations point towards novel materials which improve the isothermicity of the partial-oxidation reactor, it is expected that only a radically new approach involving a completely integrated design of the catalyst and the reactor, will lead to a breakthrough.

During this three year programme, completely novel catalytic materials will be developed to produce synthesis gas from natural gas via partial oxidation in a cleaner, more efficient and less capital intensive way than the existing technologies. The investigation of new entirely catalytic routes such as direct partial oxidation (based on a proprietary Ru catalyst) and simultaneous oxidation plus reforming (based on Pt/La/Y/zirconia catalysts) will be carried out. Integrated catalyst and reactor design will be the guiding principle of the research involving the preparation and characterisation of novel catalysts, the study of catalytic reaction mechanisms, reactor engineering and process design. Computer models will be employed to allow the scale- - up of the novel process to pressures up to 5 MPa.

If successful, it is expected that the project should lead to 15% less energy consumption, 60% less NOX and 15% less CO2 emissions, as well as 40% reduction in capital investment plus less raw material consumption in comparison to conventional process schemes. This will lead to a strong improvement of the European position in the market of the aforementioned products.
To this end, end-users British Gas and Linde have a heavy involvement in this project.

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Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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2,Den Dolech
5600 MB Eindhoven
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