Atual estágio de desenvolvimento da tecnologia GTL e perspectivas para o Brasil

• Main Authors: André Luis Dantas Ramos, José Jailton Marques, Vagner dos Santos, Lisiane dos Santos Freitas, Rosanne Graziele Vieira de Melo Santos, Mariana de Mattos Vieira Mello Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2011-01-01
• Series: Química Nova
• Subjects: natural gas; gas-to-liquid; Fischer-Tropsch
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422011001000004&lng=en&tlng=en

Although the production of liquid fuels from coal, natural gas (CTL and GTL processes) and other carbon sources has been discovered 90 years ago, the interest was renewed in the last years motivated by stranded gas reserves and by petroleum market instability. This review intends to show the scenario of these technologies nowadays, discussing the applied technologies, the steps in an industrial plant, the ways to produce syngas and liquid fuels, the catalysts used, the type of reactors and the operating plants with their respective capacities, besides the technical, economical and environmental viability, challenges and perspectives for Brazil.