Synthetic Diesel
www.SyntheticDiesel.com

What is Synthetic Diesel?

Synthetic Diesel is a method of producing diesel fuel from natural gas as well as from coal and organic waste streams such as biogas or biomethane. 

Synthetic Diesel fuel, is NOT the same as B100 Biodiesel – Synthetic diesel is made by processing natural gas through a technology called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which converts the natural gas into Synthetic Diesel, a liquid – and used just like regular diesel fuel in any diesel fuel application.

Synthetic Diesel provides numerous economic and environmental benefits over typical petroleum diesel. First of all, Synthetic Diesel is sulfur-free and free of other petroleum by-products that are found in petroleum diesel that has been refined from crude oil. This means that Synthetic Diesel is significantly cleaner, cleaner-burning, and can be formulated for superior cold weather performance and fuel system lubricity. 

Because Synthetic Diesel has fewer contaminates, it is lower in toxicity. 

As Synthetic Diesel has a high cetane rating at 60 (cetane for diesel - octane for gasoline), it offers better performance over typical diesel fuel produced from crude oil.

More about Synthetic Diesel

• Some remote natural gas can now be economically converted through a GTL process into an ultra-clean fuel for diesel engines. At times this fuel can be economically blended with conventional petroleum diesel fuels to: extend California’s diesel fuel supplies, and improve refinery capacity of cleaner diesel fuels.
  

• An opportunity exists to use GTL fuels in California and reduce the emissions from old diesel vehicles especially school buses. One plant in South Africa (Mossgas) and Shell’s Indonesia plant both produce GTL fuels suitable for use in heavy-duty diesel applications.
  

• Natural gas, is four times more expensive to transport than oil.
  

• Converting natural gas to a liquid through a Fischer-Tropsch technology provides an opportunity to expand the use of the natural gas and lower the transportation cost from remote sources of low-cost gas.
  

• Fischer-Tropsch is a gas-to-liquid (GTL) process that can produce a high-quality diesel fuel from natural gas, coal and biomass resources. Shell refers to the GTL process as a middle distillate synthesis (MDS). In all cases the middle distillate produced from this process can be blended with today’s diesel fuel.
  

• GTL diesel has extremely low (0-5-ppm) sulfur, aromatics, and toxics. GTL fuel can be blended with non-complying CARB diesel fuel to make a cleaner diesel fuel complying with stringent diesel fuel standards.
  

• Synthetic diesel fuel offers a new opportunity to use alternative fuels in diesel engines without compromising fuel-efficiency, increasing capital outlay, and impacting infrastructure or refueling cost.
  

• Further commercialization of this fuel improves the prospects of new engines meeting proposed national 2007 heavy-duty diesel engine emission standards. In the near-term, this fuel can play a role reducing existing diesel vehicles exhaust and toxic emissions.
  

• Since the late-1990s nearly every major oil company including: ARCO, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon, Phillips, Mobile, Statoil, and Texaco announced plans to build pilot plants or commercial plants to produce Synthetic Diesel fuel through the improved GTL process.
  

• Stringent diesel exhaust emission standards and fuel specifications are compelling the petroleum industry to revisit the new, improved GTL process to competitively produce aromatic and sulfur complying diesel fuel.
  

• Key to the commercial success of the GTL process lies in increased reactor capacity proven in the mid-1990s. This new process uses a slurry-bed reactor that has 100 times the capacity per reactor over some 1990 reactors and offers lowers cost.
  

• Synthetic Diesel fuel appears to be the most economical fuel product from the GTL process, compared to producing gasoline. 
  

• The GTL process needs low-cost natural gas, less than $1 per million BTUs, to compete with traditional diesel fuel. Some remote natural gas sources, called "stranded gas," that are not otherwise economically available may be ideally suited to this process, like Alaska.
  

• GTL fuels produced from pipeline supplied natural gas would not be competitive due to the higher value of pipeline supplied natural gas.

NOTES: Southwest Research Institute, AIChe, Emissions Performance of Fischer-Tropsch Diesel Fuels, March 1997. 
Document Date: July 5, 2000

Running on "green fuel" such as Biomethane, B100 Biodiesel, Synthesis Gas or natural gas, our CHP Systems are the greenest "clean power generation" systems available as they generate no new greenhouse gas emissions or other hazardous air pollutants.

With Natural Gas prices at $5.00/mmbtu, our Clean Power Generation plants generate  power for a fuel cost at about $0.05/kWh.  With operations & maintenance added in - we generate power for less than a nickel or $0.065/kWh - or, 50% less than your present electric rates.

We also provide energy independence from the "dirty" power grid with its high unreliability, black-outs and sky-rocketing electric power prices.

Clean Power Generation Solutions

CHP Systems (Cogeneration and Trigeneration) Plants 
Have Very  High Efficiencies, Low Fuel Costs & Low Emissions

The CHP System below is Rated at 900 kW and Features:
(2) Natural Gas Engines @ 450 kW each on one Skid with Optional 
Selective Catalytic Reduction system that removes Nitrogen Oxides to "non-detect."

The Effective Heat Rate of the CHP System below is 
4100 btu/kW with a Net System Efficiency of 92%. 

CHP Systems may be the best solution for your company's economic and environmental sustainability as we "upgrade" natural gas to clean power with our clean power generation solutions.

Emissions Abatement solutions reduce Nitrogen Oxides to "non-detect" which means our CHP Systems can be installed and operated in most EPA non-attainment regions!

Our CHP Systems - (operating in either natural gas fueled cogeneration or trigeneration --- or --- solar cogeneration or solar trigeneration configuration) may be the optimum power and energy solution for customers wanting increased power reliability and decreased energy and environmental costs. A few of the clients and markets that may benefit from our CHP Systems include the following:

• Airports

• Casinos

• Central Plants

• Colleges & Universities

• Dairies

• Data Centers 

• District Heating & Cooling plants

• Food Processing Plants

• Golf/Country Clubs

• Government Buildings and Facilities 

• Grocery Stores

• Hospitals 

• Hotels

• Manufacturing Plants

• Military Bases

• Nursing Homes 

• Office Buildings / Campuses

• Radio Stations

• Refrigerated Warehouses 

• Resorts 

• Restaurants 

• Schools

• Server Farms

• Shopping centers 

• Supermarkets 

• Television Stations

• Theatres

For qualified clients we will design, build, finance, own, operate and maintain a new:

"Changing the Way the World Makes and Uses Energy"

marketing@SyntheticDiesel.com

Follow us on Twitter:

Follow @SyntheticDiesel

#SyntheticDiesel

"Changing the Way the World Makes and Uses Energy"

Synthetic Diesel
www.SyntheticDiesel.com

marketing@SyntheticDiesel.com

SyntheticDiesel.com

Copyright © 2003
All Rights Reserved