Syngas technology liquid fuel production

At the end of World War II, Fischer-Tropsch technology was under study in most industrial nations. Coal can be gasified to produce synthesis gas (syngas), which can be converted to paraffinic liquid fuels and chemicals by the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Liquid product mainly contains benzene, toluene, xylene (BTX), phenols, alkylphenols and cresol. The low cost and high availability of crude oil, however, led to a decline in interest in liquid fuels made from coal. 

While carbon dioxide capture technologies are new to the power industry, they have been deployed for the past 60 years by the oil, gas, and chemical industries. They are an integral component of natural gas processing and of many coal gasification processes used for the production of syngas, chemicals, and liquid fuels. There are three main carbon dioxide capture processes for power generation (1) postcombustion, (2) precombustion, and (3) oxyfuel. 

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