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FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS [4 records]

Record 1 2015-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
DEF

An aldehyde synthesis process that falls under the general classification of a Fischer-Tropsch reaction but is distinguished by the addition of an olefin feed along with the characteristic carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

CONT

In the oxo process for alcohol manufacture, hydroformylation of olefins to aldehydes is the first step. The second step is the hydrogenation of the aldehydes to alcohols. At times the term "oxo process" is used in reference to the hydroformylation step alone. In the hydroformylation step, olefin, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen are reacted over a cobalt catalyst to produce an aldehyde which has one more carbon atom than the feed olefin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
CONT

Synthèse oxo. Une modification du procédé de Fisher-Tropsch, étudié à l'origine pour la synthèse directe des hydrocarbures et, à titres subsidiaires, pour celle de divers produits oxygénés à partir du gaz de synthèse (oxyde de carbone + hydrogène), consiste à faire réagir un hydrocarbure oléfinique avec le mélange oxyde de carbone et hydrogène [...] Cela représente une source importante de production des alcools [...] : ce procédé porte normalement le nom de «synthèse oxo», ou plus correctement, d'«hydroformylation» [...]

OBS

En fait, il ne faut pas confondre «oxosynthèse» et «hydroformylation», cette dernière n'étant qu'une première étape de l'oxosynthèse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Energy Transformation
  • Gas Industry
  • Petrochemistry
DEF

A refinery process which converts natural gas into longer-chain hydrocarbons.

CONT

Fischer-Tropsch is a gas-to-liquid(GTL) process that can produce a high-quality diesel fuel from natural gas, coal and biomass resources. Shell refers to the GTL process as a middle distillate synthesis(MDS).

OBS

Gas can be converted to liquid fuels via a direct conversion or using a process such as Fischer-Tropsch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transformation de l'énergie
  • Industrie du gaz
  • Chimie du pétrole
DEF

Technologie qui permet de transformer directement le gaz naturel en divers produits pétroliers synthétiques liquides.

CONT

Le procédé GTL permet de synthétiser des carburéacteurs et surtout des carburants diesels exempts de soufre et de composés aromatiques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Distillation
CONT

Shell' s state-of-the-art proprietary Gas to Liquids process, the Shell Middle Distillates Synthesis(SMDS), is currently used in Shell' s Bintulu plant in Malaysia. This is the world's first and only integrated low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch plant. The three main process stages used in SMDS are common to most Gas to Liquids technologies. In SMDS they are called syngas manufacture, synthesis and hydrocracking.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Distillation du pétrole
OBS

technologie SMDS développée par Shell pour la synthèse des distillats moyens.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Gas Industry
DEF

A mixture composed essentially of hydrogen and carbon monoxide often in a ratio of 2 to 1, produced by various methods(as by the action of steam with or without oxygen on coal or lignite, by the action of steam or oxygen on methane or natural gas... and used chiefly in the synthesis of methanol and ammonia, in the Fischer-Tropsch process, and in the oxo process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
  • Industrie du gaz
CONT

Le gaz de synthèse était obtenu en ajoutant de l'hydrogène au gaz à l'eau provenant de gazogènes classiques et contenait 2 volumes de H2 pour un volume de CO.

CONT

[...] il s'avère utile de convertir le charbon en gaz de synthèse ou gaz intermédiaire à base de CO + H2. Ce gaz de synthèse peut être transporté en l'état, ou mieux méthanisé en GNS. [...] Il peut être converti en carburant ou combustible liquide (comme le méthanol).

Spanish

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