Re: Methane to liquids

As exposed already earlier (maybe a year ago?),
The synthesis of nitromethane from CH4, HNO3 and heat would produce a
valuable fuel.
I extensively demonstrated that:
*Since they have CH4 (as a free garbage), they have heat, H2O and electric
cogeneration by combustion.
*Since they have free air (O2 and N2), they are able to make HNO3 from it
and from electricity and heat.
*Since they have potentially cheap HNO3 made on site, and free CH4; they
can make nitromethane.

Nitromethane racing fuel is in use and would provide good market.
Nitromethane is a valuable synthesis reagent and as such when purified by
distillation to 99% can cost over 25$/L.
Nitromethane is a relatively safe explosive that enters explosive binary
mixes.

So:
Methane    -->    Heat    +Energy    +Electricity    +Water
Water + O2 + N2 --> HNO3
CH4 + Electricity + Energy + Heat --> cooling , pumps, condenser, heaters,
distillators, ...

Input:
CH4, O2, N2
Output
CO2 and CH3-NO2 with a big added value and the ease of handling of NM vs
CH4!

All this instead of the simple spill of CH4, CO, CO2, NOx and H2O.

PhZ

Uncle Al wrote:

> Marshall Dudley wrote:

> > I am wanting to build a small methane to liquid converter. I can live
> > with either methanol or a liquid hydrocarbon output.

> Can't be directly done - and oh how petroleum companies have
> desperately tried!  The whole Arabian Pensinsula is aflame at night
> from vented burning methane.  Alaska is fat with uselsss natural gas.
> Anything that would allow methane-to-liquid conversion would be hot
> stuff.  Pipelining a gas is not efficient compared to liquids.
> Rock-like methane hydrate requires punctiliously dried input - even
> ppm water is an eventual problem.

> The best you can do is methane to syn gas to methanol to ZSM-5 high
> aromatic feedstock.  It isn't economic at the wellhead.  Bubbling
> methane into concentrated sulfuric acid plus palladium is silly except
> as a publication.

> One might imagine methane plus steam going into a superacid zeolite or
> hot dispersed scandium triflate, both impregnated with palladium,
> might give you a direct methanol/methyl ether feedstream, and then
> into ZSM-5.
>
> --
> Uncle Al
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