Gas-to-Liquids (GTL)
Getting Natural Gas to the Market
Alternative sources of ultra-clean liquid fuels are necessitated by rising crude oil prices, combined with stringent environmental specifications for sulfur and aromatics in diesel fuel. The Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) process is an economically robust and environmentally beneficial way of monetizing stranded gas reserves.
To realize the stranded value, GTL applications demand solutions with innovative design, excellence in engineering, maximum lifetime value as well as ultimate compliance with health, safety, environmental, and industry standards.
A GTL plant requires a large number of different compressor trains. Air separation or air compression are the single most important parts of any GTL plant. Depending on the applied process, large air compressors feed massive volumes of air either directly to the gas reforming stage, or to a cryogenic separation process, which provides oxygen for the conversion of natural gas into syngas.
For these applications, Siemens offers:
The refining portion of a GTL plant involves a number of diverse processes and applications – from natural gas reforming, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and hydrogen production to product upgrading.
For these applications, Siemens offers:
- Natural gas booster STC-SV or STC-SH
- Syngas booster STC-SV or STC-SH
- Compressors for recycle gas, syngas, propane, regeneration gas, recontacting STC-SV or
STC-SH
- Blowers for sulfur recovery
Drives for all compressors