Modeling and techno-economic analysis of shale-to-liquid and coal-to-liquid fuels processes

Zhou, Huairong; Yang, Siyu; Xiao, Honghua; Yang, Qingchun; Qian, Yu; Gao, Li

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2016.04.108

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“…Shale gas is surrounded by hard clay rocks, and it is extracted by a method known as hydraulic fracturing [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. This method includes injecting a large Until 1821, shale gas had been produced in small quantities from naturally fractured shales [11][12][13][14][15]. After the development and optimization of drilling technologies, in 1998, shale gas was produced commercially by Mitchell Energy Company from Barnett formation in Fort Worth Basin using water fracture technology [16,17].…”

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A comparative technical and economic analysis of different processes for shale gas conversion to high value products

Nguyen¹,

Rahimi²,

Pirouzfar³

et al. 2020

Comptes Rendus. Chimie

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A comparative technical and economic analysis of different processes for shale gas conversion to high value products

Nguyen¹,

Rahimi²,

Pirouzfar³

et al. 2020

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“…H. Zhou et al [13] perform a techno-economic analysis of plants based on coal and shale for diesel and gasoline production. They suggest methods for improving energy efficiency and economic performance of production processes.…”

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Clean Coal Technologies for Electricity and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Production for Distributed Generation

Tyurina

Mednikov

Жарков

2020

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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The paper presents energy technology installations for combined production of methanol and electricity for distributed generation. The technical and economic study is based on mathematical modeling using a system of computer-aided construction of programs and optimization with the models. The results of the effect of fuel composition on methanol and electricity production are presented. The competitiveness of the obtained methanol is assessed. The studies were carried out for various electricity and coal costs. The thermal efficiency of such installations is more than 60 %. At present methanol produced at energy technology installations is competitive with expensive diesel fuel delivered from other areas.

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“…[8,9] Shale to liquid (STL, by retorting and hydrogenation) and syngas to liquid (GTL;b yp rocessing syngast hrough Fischer-Tr opsch (F-T) synthesis) techniques are promising ways to fulfill current and future liquid fuel requirements. [10][11][12] Shale is one of the most abundant rocks found globally,accordingt ot he 2010 WorldE nergy Outlook, and world oilshale resourcesm ay be equivalent to more than 5trillion barrels (790 billion cubic meters) of oil in place. [13,14] Oil shale consistsofamineral porous matrix, in which the porosity is filled with oil called kerogen.…”

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“…To ensure current energy needs and meet future expectations, new techniques for efficient utilization of unconventional oil and gas resources (heavy oil, oil sand, tight oil, oil shale, shale gas, coalbed methane, and tight gas), exploration of new reserves, and evaluating the potential alternatives have to be considered together . Shale to liquid (STL, by retorting and hydrogenation) and syngas to liquid (GTL; by processing syngas through Fischer–Tropsch (F–T) synthesis) techniques are promising ways to fulfill current and future liquid fuel requirements …”

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Process Analysis for the Production of Hydrogen and Liquid Fuels from Oil Shale

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Shale to liquid (STL) and syngas to liquid (GTL) fuel techniques are applied to vast discovered resources of oil shale to fulfil current and future liquid fuel demands. To utilize the different constituents of oil shale efficiently, cases 1 and 2 were designed to produce liquid fuels and hydrogen as end products. In case 1, which produces shale oil and retorting gas from oil shale that are further processed by shale oil hydrogenation and retorting gas steam reforming to produce liquid fuels and hydrogen, respectively. For comparison, case 2, including oil‐shale retorting, retorting gas steam reforming, shale oil hydrogenation, and Fischer–Tropsch synthesis technology, was also established. Cases 1 and 2 are compared (with respect to end products and energy efficiencies) with each other by modeling and simulating three scenarios for case 1 and four scenarios for case 2. The simulation results show that the third scenario of case 1 and the fourth scenario of case 2 provide the most important required end products, namely, hydrogen and hydrocarbon fuels. The overall production of hydrocarbon fuels in the fourth scenario of case 2 increases 0.95 wt % more than that of the third scenario of case 1, whereas the production of hydrogen reduces by 14.7 wt % and the external energy consumption is 20 % higher in the fourth scenario of case 2, relative to that of the third scenario of case 1. For the third scenario of case 1 and fourth scenario of case 2, the total energy efficiency of the system is 43.45 % (high heating value (HHV)) and 43.16 % (HHV), respectively. The whole system is modeled and simulated in the Aspen Plus V8.4 program and the results are compatible with those of industrial and experimental data. Sensitivity analyses are performed to show the effects of various key operating parameters on the production yield of shale oil, retorting gas, and hydrogen.

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Modeling and techno-economic analysis of shale-to-liquid and coal-to-liquid fuels processes

Cited by 57 publications

References 18 publications

A comparative technical and economic analysis of different processes for shale gas conversion to high value products

A comparative technical and economic analysis of different processes for shale gas conversion to high value products

Clean Coal Technologies for Electricity and Synthetic Liquid Fuel Production for Distributed Generation

Process Analysis for the Production of Hydrogen and Liquid Fuels from Oil Shale

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