Gas to Olefins

In this step, the cleaned syngas is passed over a suitable catalyst to produce a liquid intermediate using catalyst and reactions conditions that are very economical and efficient.

Unlike competitive syngas to alcohol technologies, which pass syngas through a catalyst bed at extremely high pressure (i.e., between 1,100 and 1,800 PSI), Maverick’s Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) olefin synthesis is conducted at lower pressures, making this process more technologically feasible and the production facility less expensive to build, maintain, and operate.  The competitive technologies that convert syngas to alcohol have a very low product yield per pass through the catalyst bed (i.e., around 20% per pass).  In contrast, Maverick’s F-T synthesis produces high product yields per pass.  Because the reaction is carried out at a relatively low pressure, it is economically feasible to recompress any unreacted syngas and to recycle it through the reactor to increase the overall syngas conversion.

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