Process for producing hydrocarbon gas from organic plant material
AssigneeUniversity of Rhode Island
InventorGeorge T. Felbeck, Jr.
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Abstract
Plant-derived organic material is converted to high BTU gas by heating the organic material with ammonia in the presence of a vanadium +3 or +4 catalyst and a hydrogenation catalyst in an atmosphere substantially free of oxygen.
Claims7
The process for converting an organic material selected from the group consisting of a plant-derived organic material, an alcohol, a sugar, and mixtures thereof to a high BTU gas which comprises heating said organic material with ammonia, in the presence of a vanadium catalyst wherein the vanadium is in the +3 or +4 state and a hydrogenation catalyst in an atmosphere substantially free of oxygen and recovering a gaseous product.
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