EUBCE 2024 - John WHITEHOUSE - Cool LPG: Catalytic Production of Drop-in Renewable Clean-Burning Liquid Gas Fuel

Cool LPG: Catalytic Production of Drop-in Renewable Clean-Burning Liquid Gas Fuel

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Cool LPG is a new technology under development at GTI Energy that produces renewable LPG. The feedstocks required for Cool LPG are widely available at scale and the process is selective for LPG. The process can be fed by biogas, renewable-syngas or green H2 + biogenic CO2. LPG is the primary product, produced with significantly higher selectivity than via routes utilizing other chemistries. Cool LPG can be entirely fueled and powered by parasitic consumption of the feed and can therefore be implemented using modular technology in areas without significant existing infrastructure other than a supply of biogas. Significant development work has been performed on the Cool LPG process; GTI Energy has combined bench-scale experimental work with process modeling, reactor simulation, and technoeconomic analysis. Pilot plant testing is planned for early 2024. A high-level schematic of the Cool LPG process is shown in Figure 1. GTI Energy is currently developing the Cool LPG process with its licensees BioLPG LLC and GLPGP along with a consortium of LPG industry partners.

P. Littlewood, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
T. Marker, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
M. Bradford, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
S. Afzal, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
P. Ortiz-Toral, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA
J. Whitehouse, GTI Energy, Des Plaines, USA