XTL

Technical and geo-political issues draw question marks to the future availability of petroleum as a source of liquid energy carrier with the consequence that any carbonaceous resource is presently evaluated for its potential for conversion into liquid.

Such an evaluation is kaleidoscopic in nature: technological advances in chemical conversion processes, abundance of local natural resources, infrastructure and transport logistics, environmental impact, safety, and price accessibility are all critical parameters, whose relative importance is matter of debate. This is the debate that will be held at the WCCE8 Symposium on XTL in Montreal 2009, which offers a unique stage thanks to the all-round spanning of represented technical competencies, industries, geographical origin, and political background.

Scope

This topical symposium is dedicated to enlighten all critical aspects connected to the production of liquid fuels.

The proposed topics are :

Production of liquid fuels, technical and economic issues

  • Refinery Today
  • MeOH production
  • DME production
  • Production of synfuels from biomass
  • Production of synfuels from black liquor
  • Glycerol to gasoline
  • Gasification to fuels minimizing CO2
  • Microstructured reactors vs. mastodons
  • Exploitation of oil sands
  • Bioethanol
  • Biobutanol
  • Pine Forest to liquid fuels
  • Solar based biomass conversion
  • WtL (Waste-to-liquids, agricultural or other)
  • LPG as transportation fuel
  • Biodiesel
  • MtG
  • Syngas from trees
  • Syngas from algae
  • Fischer-Tropsch

Characteristics of chemicals as transportation fuels

  • Well to wheel analysis of liquid fuels
  • Synfuels for Aviation
  • Car producers view on chemical as fuels

Costs of logistics for production and distribution

  • Cost of infrastructure in China: DME/MeOH distribution

Security of supplies and global demand

  • Minister of energy / North America
  • Minister of energy / Asia
  • Minister of energy / Europe
  • Global demand
  • Views from an NGO
  • Supply of construction material
  • Supply of material for catalysis
  • Supply of biomass for large applications

Economic accessibility of fuels

  • NGO 1
  • NGO 2

On-going projects

  • GtL Oryx, Sasol
  • GtL Oryx, Haldor Topsøe reformer
  • DME project, Mitsubishi
  • GtL Pearl/Bintulu, Shell
  • FT project, ENI/IFP
  • GtL, Chyioda /Nippon Oil and Nippon Steel
  • FPSO floating production storage and off-loading vessel
  • CompactGtL, Petrobras
  • Direct Coal Liquefaction / Shenhua

Scenarios of future energy supply and consumption (Roundtable)

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings.

Organizers

Roberta Cenni
Syngas Engineering
Haldor Topsøe A/S
Nymøllevej 55
2800 Kgl Lyngby
Denmark
roc@topsoe.dk

Keith W. Hutchenson
DuPont CR&D, Experimental Station
P.O. Box 80304
Wilmington, DE 19880-0304
USA
keith.w.hutchenson@usa.dupont.com

Jan Lerou
Velocys, Inc.
7950 Corporate Boulevard
Plain City, OH 43064
USA
lerou@velocys.com

Hiroshi Yagi
TOTAL Trading International S.A.
Tokyo Branch
Akasaka Shasta-East
4-2-19 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0052
Japan
hiroshi.yagi@total.com

Members of the Scientific Committee

Per Bakkerud, Haldor Topsøe A/S
Franco Berruti, UWO
Esteban Chornet, Enerkem
Jim Lattner, Exxon
Yotaro Ohno, JFE
Jens Perregaard, Haldor Topsøe A/S
Frédéric Febvre, Total Gas&Power
Christian Aichernig, Repotec (Gussing, Austria)
W Michael Sanford, DuPont-Cellulosic EtOH
Hiroshi Kita, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical
Kenichi Kawazuishi, Chiyoda Corporation
Franziska Mueller-Langer, German Biomass Research Centre
Eliott Sorella, FuturPlast
Christof Ruehl, BP
Helena Chum, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sheila Leggett, National Energy Board of Alberta
Ingvar Landälv, CHEMREC
Fuchen Wang, East China University of Science and Technology
Alexandre Courchesne, ESU Services
Moinuddin Sarker, Natural State Research
Jeff McDaniel, Velocys
Marita Veringa Niemela, Poyry Engineering
Brendon Hausberger, Golden Nest,COMPS Witwatersrand
Rene Bos, Shell
Capucine Dupont, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France
Philip Pienkos, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Rocco Fiato, Accelergy