Production of hydrocarbon products

Abstract

An integrated process for producing hydrocarbon products and energy includes reforming a hydrocarbonaceous gaseous feed stock to synthesis gas, and exothermally reacting the synthesis gas at elevated temperature and pressure, and in the presence of a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst, to produce a range of hydrocarbon products of differing carbon chain lengths. The reaction temperature is controlled by indirect heat exchange of a reaction medium, comprising synthesis gas and hydrocarbon products, with water, with the water being converted to steam (‘FT steam’). The process includes burning a combustible gas in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine generator, to form combusted gas, and expanding the combusted gas through an expansion chamber of the gas turbine generator to form hot flue gas. The gas turbine generator generates electrical energy. The FT steam is superheated by means of hot flue gas, thereby producing superheated FT steam.

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