Consider technology implications for small-scale Fischer-Tropsch GTL

A. de Klerk, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Small-scale GTL processes aim to produce transportable liquid products from smaller natural gas reservoirs that cannot be profitably connected to pipeline infrastructure. The size of small scale GTL processes is a byproduct of the nature of such natural gas reservoirs. There is no specific size limit beyond which GTL processes should no longer be considered as small-scale. Rather, it is contended that the design of small-scale GTL processes should be inherently different from that of large-scale GTL processes. Smaller natural gas reservoirs unconnected to pipeline infrastructure