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Process for producing transportation fuels from syngas

Goetsch, Duane A. ; Arcuri, Kym B ; et al.
2014
Online Patent

Titel:
Process for producing transportation fuels from syngas
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: Goetsch, Duane A. ; Arcuri, Kym B ; Schmit, Steven J. ; Hitchingham, Jacqueline R ; White, Lloyd R.
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Veröffentlichung: 2014
Medientyp: Patent
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  • Nachgewiesen in: USPTO Patent Grants
  • Sprachen: English
  • Patent Number: 8,748,500
  • Publication Date: June 10, 2014
  • Appl. No: 13/457202
  • Application Filed: April 26, 2012
  • Assignees: SynGas Technology, LLC (Elk River, MN, US)
  • Claim: 1. A process for producing at least one transportation fuel boiling range stream from syngas, which syngas is comprised predominantly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, up to about 20 volume percent of other moieties, substantially no sulfur, and has a hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of about 1 to about 1.5, which process comprising: a) reacting said syngas in a first reaction zone in the presence of a bifunctional catalyst, at pressures from about 400 psi to about 1,000 psi and at a temperature from about 150° C. to 400° C. for an effective residence time, thereby resulting in product stream comprised of dimethyl ether, methanol, unreacted syngas at a higher hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio than the feed ratio, water, and carbon dioxide; b) conducting said product stream to a first separation zone wherein the stream is cooled and condensed, thereby resulting in a gaseous product stream comprised of unreacted syngas and a first separated liquid product stream comprised substantially of dimethyl ether, methanol, water and dissolved carbon dioxide; c) conducting said first separated liquid product stream to a second separation zone wherein at least a portion of said carbon dioxide is removed thereby resulting in a second separated liquid product stream comprised of dimethyl ether, methanol, and water; d) conducting said second separated liquid reaction product stream to a third separation zone wherein at least a fraction of the methanol and water are removed, thereby resulting in a third separated liquid product stream comprised of predominantly dimethyl ether; e) conducting at least a portion of said third liquid product stream to a second reaction zone wherein it is contacted with a catalyst selected from the group consisting of ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-21 and TEA mordenite, at a pressure from about sub-atmospheric to about 50 atmospheres and a temperature of about 260° C. to about 550° C. for an effective amount of time to produce a reaction product stream comprised of gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons, fuel gas, and water; f) conducting at least a fraction of said unreacted syngas from step b) above to a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis zone wherein it is reacted under Fischer-Tropsch conditions and in the presence of hydrogen and a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst to produce a product stream comprised of an aqueous portion and a hydrocarbon portion; g) conducting said product stream from said Fischer-Tropsch synthesis zone to a fourth separation zone wherein at least a fraction of the aqueous portion is separated from the hydrocarbon portion; h) conducting said hydrocarbon portion to a hydroconversion zone operated at temperatures ranging from 250° C. to 400° C., pressures from about 15 kg/cm 2 to 175 kg/cm 2 in the presence of a hydroisomerization catalyst to result in a product stream comprised of hydroconverted hydrocarbons; i) conducting said product stream of hydroconverted hydrocarbons to a fractionation zone wherein said stream is fractionated to result in at least one transportation fuel product.
  • Claim: 2. The process of claim 1 wherein the syngas is obtained from a biomass.
  • Claim: 3. The process of claim 2 wherein the biomass is selected from the group consisting of non-woody plant biomass, cultivated crops, grasses, sugar processing residues, agricultural residues, and a combination thereof.
  • Claim: 4. The process of claim 1 wherein the hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of the syngas feed is from about 1.1 to about 1.4.
  • Claim: 5. The process of claim 4 wherein the hydrogen to carbon monoxide ratio of the syngas feed is from about 1.2 to about 1.3.
  • Claim: 6. The process of claim 1 wherein substantially all of the water is removed from the second separated liquid reaction product in the third separation zone.
  • Claim: 7. The process of claim 1 wherein substantially all of the methanol and water are removed from the second separated liquid reaction product in the third separation zone.
  • Claim: 8. The process of claim 1 wherein the catalyst of the first reaction zone is selected from the group consisting of copper oxide-zinc oxide-alumina, and zinc oxide-chromium oxide-alumina.
  • Claim: 9. The process of claim 1 wherein at least a portion of any unreacted syngas from any of the separation zones is recycled to said first reaction zone.
  • Claim: 10. The process of claim 1 wherein the temperature of the first reaction zone is from about 200 to about 350° C.
  • Claim: 11. The process of claim 1 wherein the catalyst used in the second reaction zone is a ZSM-5 catalyst.
  • Claim: 12. The process of claim 1 wherein the temperature of said second reaction zone is from about 315° C. to about 425° C.
  • Current U.S. Class: 518/700
  • Patent References Cited: 4568663 February 1986 Mauldin ; 4919786 April 1990 Hamner et al. ; 4923841 May 1990 Hamner et al. ; 6800665 October 2004 Shikada et al. ; 7015255 March 2006 Tomura et al. ; 7033972 April 2006 Shikada et al. ; 7820867 October 2010 Joensen et al.
  • Primary Examiner: Parsa, Jafar
  • Attorney, Agent or Firm: Naylor, Henry E.

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