One knows that stocks of oil all over the world are insignificant and basically
will be exhausted the nearest 50 years. Accordingly, the prices for oil grow
extremely quickly and there are no essential bases to expect their sharp downturn
in the future. On the contrary, stocks of natural gas are more essentially,
and more regular distributed on territories of the Earth. Old problem of chemical
conversation of gaseous into oil can not be economically effectively solved
until recently (1990-2000) when the mankind has learned to receive carbon
nano-structures with completely special physical and chemical properties.
However, all these structures appeared to be too expensive for application
in the chemical industry
Authors of the project offer to use of an accessible natural very cheap mineral
- shungit-III for the production of the heterogeneous catalyst for the conversion
of natural, passing gaseous or gaseous-condensate (basically consisting of
methane) into liquid fuel – gasoline or methyl spirit.
The only one in the world unique deposit of shungit-III with huge capacity
is in Russia (Russian federation, Republic Karelia). Shungit-III is the most
widespread and cheap fraction of shungit’s minerals (0.3 $/kg). It consists
of usual carbon phases, silicate phases, mixes of metals, oxides and some
salts of d- and heavy metals and carbon nano-structures.
We develop original technology of mechanical and chemical processing of shungit-III
and for the first time in the world have received natural rather cheap carbon
nano-material, containing up to 90 mas. % of carbon nano-structures (basically
with channels. From 1 tone of shungit-III on the developed technology one
can provide up to 50 kg of natural carbon nano-material - MNS under the price
no more than 50 - 100 $/kg, that is in hundreds - thousand times cheaper than
similar artificial nano-structural materials.
At laboratory researches of this material as the heterogeneous catalyst in
interval of temperatures 350 - 450?? and pressures - up to 30 atm. In the
presence of oxygen and water authors have observed effective dehydration of
methane and it’s conversion into gasoline ore methyl spirit (also very
effective liquid fuel).
During performance of the project development of industrial technologies and
installations for manufacture of catalyst and reception with its help gasoline
ore methyl spirit from natural gaseous is supposed.
Contact information
Dr.Sci.Tech.
Alexander Ya. Rats
kat@ilip.ru
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