Ecologically benign motor fuels and petrochemicals from alternative raw materials
A. Y. Rozovskii, E. V. Slivinskii, G. I. Lin, V. A. Makhlin, Y. A. Kolbanovsky, and N. A. Plate
A. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis,
Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 Leninsky Prospect, 119991, Moscow, GSP-1,
Russia
Abstract: Physicochemical foundations of various processes which
comprise the single stages of natural gas processing into motor fuels
are considered. Among them are: novel process of syngas production by
methane reforming using rocket technology, direct dimethyl ether synthesis
from syngas and its conversion into the ecologically benign gasoline,
an advanced technology of methanol synthesis, as well as methanol transformation
into pure hydrogen, Fischer�Tropsch synthesis with increased selectivity.
New developments made by the Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis
Russian Academy of Sciences (TIPS RAS) in this field are discussed.
In this light, the achievement of a global goal, to make synthetic motor
fuels cheaper than their oil counterparts, appears to be a solvable
task for the nearest future.
*Plenary lecture presented at the XVII Mendeleev Congress on General and Applied Chemistry, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, 21 -26 September 2003. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1605-1798.
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