2017 Annual Meeting
(350d) Valorization of Natural Gas Liquids from Shale Gas
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In this process, natural gas liquid is transformed to higher molecular weight hydrocarbon. Compared with the existing technologies, our new approach has the following advantages: (1) This process minimizes the production of by-products. (2) This process is amenable to size reduction.
We demonstrate that, through a case study for a 96 MMSCFD shale gas feed from the Bakken region, the total capital cost for the proposed process is much cheaper than existing Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) processes such as Fischer-Tropsch and Methanol-to-Gasoline process. Also, we estimate the break-even price for our process to be lower than GTL-Fischer-Tropsch process. Therefore, this new process is an economically attractive step to upgrade shale gas in remote shale basins.