Production and Characterization of Synthetic Jet Fuel Produced from Fischer-Tropsch Hydrocarbons (Preprint)

The U.S. Military has initiated a project to evaluate jet fuel, produced from natural gas by processes developed by Syntroleum Corporation, for use in all military equipment capable of using either diesel fuel or jet fuel. A synthetic Single Battlefield Fuel would need to meet a wide range of specif...

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Main Authors: Freerks, Robert L, Muzzell, Patsy A
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ATR(AUTOTHERMAL REFORMER)
FISCHER TROPSCH REACTION
Fuels
Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Processing
MILITARY REQUIREMENTS
PARAFFINS
SYNTHETIC FUELS
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Summary:The U.S. Military has initiated a project to evaluate jet fuel, produced from natural gas by processes developed by Syntroleum Corporation, for use in all military equipment capable of using either diesel fuel or jet fuel. A synthetic Single Battlefield Fuel would need to meet a wide range of specifications and in-use requirements before it would be accepted as a fuel by the military. The Syntroleum process for fuel production includes unique Autothermal Reforming of methane, reaction of the produced synthesis gas over cobalt catalyst to produce linear hydrocarbons of various chain lengths, and conversion of this feedstock into isoparaffinic fuel to meet the physical and chemical requirements per MIL-DTL-5624T for JP-5 Aviation Turbine Fuel. Syntroleum synthetic jet fuel produced for evaluation by DOD has an average carbon number of 13.2 and contains relatively little normal paraffins with proportionally lower normal paraffins at higher carbon numbers. Prepared in collaboration with U.S. Army National Automotive Center. Preprint paper of the American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry: general papers and symposia.