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Car Fuel Gas To Liquid-Can Someone Explain This Process?

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  1. There are several processes that can convert natural gas (essentially methane) into liquid hydrocarbons.  Most are based on some variant of the classic Fischer Tropsch process.  The first step is to convert the methane into a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.  This is done using steam reforming.  The relative concentrations of CO and H2 are then adjusted using the water shift reaction and finally, this "synthesis gas" is combined to produce the desired liquids.


  2. If your question is "Car Fuel, Gas to liquid, explain" you may be referring to the Fischer-Tropsch Process where by CO and H2 formed by the heating in the presence of steam of coal,  biomass or hydrocarbon gases is converted in the presence of a catalyst into liquid hydrocarbons suitable for use as fuels etc.  This process was used in the second World War and more recently in South Africa to convert coal to liquid hydrocarbons.  It produces a particularly good diesel fuel but also some fractions good for gasoline.

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    The South African company Sasol is licensing its knowhow for gas to liquids processes in Qatar  http://www..qa/qqp.comp.nsf/web/bc_new_p...  

    There is much additional information to be found by googling Fischer-Tropsch process and links.

  3. There is no such thing as a "Car Fuel Gas To Liquid process".

    You may be confusing a number of other things like LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas), coal gasification and fuel vaporization in a carburetor or something, but really your question makes no sense at all.

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