While fossil oil reserves have been receding, the demand for diesel and gasoline has growing. In recent years, syngas of biomass origin emerging as a viable feedstock Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, process manufacturing synthetic diesel. This paper reports optimization quality to match FT synthesis requirement. The model maximizes thermal efficiency under constraint <math xmlns="http://www.w3....

Dispersed gas-liquid-solid flows are frequently encountered in a variety of industrial processes involving a.o. coating, granulation, drying and synthesis of fuels (Fischer Tropsch) and base chemicals. The dynamics of these flows is dictated by the motion of the individual phases and the complex mutual interactions and as a direct consequence thereof CFD-based modelling of these systems has pro...

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a commercial cobalt catalyst (Albemarle) has been carried out under various combinations of two process parameters, viz. reaction pressure and GHSV (gas hourly space velocity) using synthesis gas with molar ratio of H2/CO = 2. The optimum set of reaction parameters that yielded hydrocarbon product in the desired carbon number range of C10-C14 and chain growth prob...