- The mobile MTG (Methanol to Gasoline) process converts methanol
to high octane unleaded Gasoline
using a zeolite catalyst. The process, which would be the first
commercial production in the world, would supply one-third of the
domestic gasoline demand 22% of its total fuel requirements in 1986,
when the plant was in full operation.
- Mobile Oil invested heavily into researching and producing H
ZSM-5, a zeolite catalyst for the Methanol-to-Gasoline (MTG)
Process. It's an efficient process that results in about a 98 percent
conversion.
- Basically, two parts of methanol are run
over a catalyst to produce one part gasoline, and one part water. A
large plant was built in New Zealand in 1985 which was put into
production for 10 years which proved it could work.
- The Mobil MTG process was said to be able to able to produce a
barrel of synthetic gasoline for US 23 dollar.
- The thermal efficiency of the MTG reaction alone is 95%.In
comparison with other synthetic gasoline process, the MTG process in
the Synfuel
production also has great economical potential. The MTG process
would give significant cost advantages over the Fischer-Tropsch
synthesis, another prominent process for synthetic gasoline.
- Plant models for the coal-to-MTG and natural gas- to-MTG process
were developed using Aspen Plus (Aspen 2006).
- For the natural gas-to-MTG cases, natural gas composition was
taken from data published by Northwest Gas Association. Capacity for
the plant was set at 11,023 ton/day
of methanol, which corresponds to dual 5,512 ton/day methanol
plants. Final product rate for these cases was 38,750 bbl/day of
liquid
products (gasoline plus liquefied petroleum gas [LPG]).
- Air separation in the conventional
natural gas-to-MTG case is identical to that of the conventional
coal-to-MTG case.
- Power production in the conventional
natural gas-to-MTG case is identical to that of the conventional
coal-to MTG case.
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