A process to safely shutdown a Fischer Tropsch reactor is provided. The process can be used for a routine shutdown but is specifically designed for emergency shutdowns such as during a thermal excursion or power failure or equipment failure.

A catalyst material comprising 10-ring zeolite crystallites with one-dimensional non-intersecting channels wherein, the crystallites have an average length of less than 150 nm. The catalysts are useful in a method for producing hydrocarbons by reaction of oxygenates over said catalysts.

The present invention provides a process for preparing a zeolite by hydrothermal heating of silica precursor and alumina precursor along with a combination of two structure-directing organic templates, N,N-dimethyl formamide and 1,6-diaminohexane in the presence of an alkali. The use of two structure-directing organic templates, not only reduces the crystallization time but also enables the preparation of more catalytically active ZSM-22 of submicron crystallite size. The present invention also provides a process of preparing a noble metal containing zeolite catalyst for hydroisomerization of long chain n-paraffins.

Disclosed herein is a method comprising the steps of: a) producing a hydrocarbon stream from syngas via a Fischer-Tropsch reaction, wherein the hydrocarbon stream comprises a first C2 hydrocarbon stream comprising ethane and a first ethylene product; b) separating at least a portion of the first C2 hydrocarbon stream from the hydrocarbon stream; c) separating at least a portion of the first ethylene product from the first C2 hydrocarbon stream, thereby producing a second C2 hydrocarbon stream; d) converting at least a portion of the ethane in the second C2 hydrocarbon stream to a second ethylene product; and e) producing polyethylene from at least a portion of the second ethylene product.

The invention relates to hydrocarbon pyrolysis, to equipment and materials useful for hydrocarbon pyrolysis, to processes for carrying out hydrocarbon pyrolysis, and to the use of hydrocarbon pyrolysis for. e.g., natural gas upgrading. The pyrolysis can be carried out in a reverse-flow reactor.

The invention is directed to a process to prepare ethylene and propylene from a biomass feedstock wherein the process comprises the following steps: (a) a mild gasification of a torrefied biomass feedstock thereby obtaining a char and a gaseous fraction comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a mixture of gaseous organic compounds; (b) a severe gasification of the gaseous fraction in the absence of the char to obtain a substantially tar-free syngas; (c) a Fischer-Tropsch reaction of the substantially tar-free syngas to obtain a first product mixture comprising of methane and C2+ aliphatic hydrocarbons, and (d) a steam cracking reaction of all or part of the C2+ aliphatic hydrocarbons obtained in step (c) to obtain a second product mixture. Methane as isolated from the first and/or the second product mixture may be combusted to generate heat for the endothermal steam cracking reaction in step (d).

A process to produce olefinic products suitable for use as or conversion to oilfield hydrocarbons includes separating an olefins-containing Fischer-Tropsch condensate into a light fraction, an intermediate fraction and a heavy fraction, oligomerising at least a portion of the light fraction to produce a first olefinic product which includes branched internal olefins, and carrying out either one or both of the steps of (i) dehydrogenating at least a portion of the intermediate fraction to produce an intermediate product which includes internal olefins and alpha-olefins, and synthesising higher olefins from the intermediate product which includes internal olefins and alpha-olefins to produce a second olefinic product, and (ii) dimerising at least a portion of the intermediate fraction to produce a second olefinic product. At least a portion of the heavy fraction is dehydrogenated to produce a third olefinic product which includes internal olefins. Also provided is a process to produce paraffinic products suitable for use as or conversion to oilfield hydrocarbons which includes separating a Fischer-Tropsch wax into at least a lighter fraction and a heavier fraction, hydrocracking the heavier fraction to provide a cracked intermediate, and separating the cracked intermediate into at least a naphtha fraction, a heavier than naphtha paraffinic distillate fraction suitable for use as or conversion to oilfield hydrocarbons, and a bottoms fraction which is heavier than the paraffinic distillate fraction.

The invention provides a process for the production of a fully synthetic heavy fuel oil, said process including at least fractionation of hydrocarbons obtained from the hydroconversion of C5 and heavier Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process products to obtain a product that is heavier than a middle distillate and has an ASTM D86 cut-off temperature in excess of 350 C. Further, the invention provides a fuel made in accordance with the process.

Use of a liquid fuel composition comprising (a) a gasoline base fuel and (b) from 0.5 to 50% v/v of naphtha as a fuel for a spark ignition internal combustion engine, wherein the spark ignition internal combustion engine is comprised within the powertrain of a hybrid electric vehicle.

A method of producing fuel from CO.sub.2 comprising introducing natural gas, steam, and recovered CO.sub.2 to a reformer to produce unshifted syngas characterized by a molar ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide of from about 1.7:1 to about 2.5:1; introducing the unshifted syngas to a water gas shift unit to produce a shifted syngas, wherein an amount of CO.sub.2 in the shifted syngas is greater than in the unshifted syngas; separating the CO.sub.2 from the shifted syngas to produce recycle CO.sub.2 and a hydrogen-enriched syngas; recycling the recycle CO.sub.2 to the reformer; introducing the unshifted syngas to a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) unit to produce an FT product, FT water, and FT tail gas, wherein the FT product comprises FT liquids and FT wax; and separating the FT liquids from the FT product to produce a fuel.