Jet fuel production from biogas via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

航空涡轮燃料或喷气燃料是为数不多的没有简单无碳替代品的碳基燃料之一。使用可再生能源生产的喷气燃料必须符合现有的燃料规格。与Greenfield Global合作，证明了一种商用的H-ZSM-5催化剂可用于混合碳氢化合物的齐聚和芳构化，而无需任何改造，以生产富含煤油的产品(NSERC Engage Grant)。除了进行概念验证工作外，还进行了较长时间的实验室中试运行，收集了~5 L反应产物，这是一种石蜡和烯烃齐聚物的混合物。这项工作(NSERC Engage Plus Grant)的目的是进行必要的精炼步骤，将该产品转化为半合成喷气燃料混合组分。反应产物将经过加氢处理和蒸馏，以获得不同的沸腾馏分。将确定可行的煤油沸腾范围，并对适当的馏分进行表征，以确定其是否符合适用于半合成航空涡轮燃料混合组件的DEF-STAN 91-91和ASTM D 7566规范。

One of the few carbon-based fuels that do not have a simple carbon-free substitute, is aviation turbine fuel orjet fuel. Jet fuel produced from renewable sources must comply with existing fuel specifications. Incollaboration with Greenfield Global it was demonstrated that a commercially available H-ZSM-5 catalystcould be used without any modification for the combined oligomerization and aromatization of a mixture oflight hydrocarbons to produce a kerosene-rich product (NSERC Engage grant). In addition to the proof ofconcept work performed, a longer laboratory pilot run was conducted to collect ~5 L of reaction product, whichis a mixture of paraffins and olefinic oligomers. The purpose of this work (NSERC Engage Plus grant) is toperform the refining steps necessary to turn this product into a semi-synthetic jet fuel blending component.The reaction product will be hydrotreated and distilled to obtain different boiling fractions. The viablekerosene boiling range will be determined and the appropriate fraction will be characterized to determinewhether it meets applicable DEF-STAN 91-91 and ASTM D 7566 specifications for a semi-synthetic aviationturbine fuel blending component.