{"id":16102,"date":"2012-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20121120-01n"},"modified":"2012-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:00:00","slug":"little-big-tech-can-fischer-tropsch-technology-work-at-smaller-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/little-big-tech-can-fischer-tropsch-technology-work-at-smaller-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In last week\u2019s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies \u2013 companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL):<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two major problems with any of the XTL technologies are that capital costs are extremely high, and a long-term, cheap feedstock supply must be secured. Shell\u2019s initial estimate for the [Pearl GTL plant in Qatar] was $5 billion, but by the time the project was completed the costs were estimated to be around $20 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230;Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/11\/20\/little-big-tech-can-fischer-tropsch-technology-work-at-smaller-scale\/\" >www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/11\/20\/little-big-tech-can-fischer-tropsch-technology-work-at-smaller-scale\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: synthesis gas, liquid hydrocarbon fuels, thermochemical processes, pyrolysis, gas fermentation, Micro-reactors, microchannel technology, carbon containing waste<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>In last week&rsquo;s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies &ndash; companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL),<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[4127,310,2301,4010,2334,2807,2392,412,2745,647,1492,4128],"class_list":["post-16102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-cool-planet","supplier-coskata","supplier-enerkem-inc","supplier-ensyn-corporation","supplier-ineos-bio","supplier-kior-inc","supplier-lanzatech","supplier-oxford-catalysts","supplier-rentech-inc","supplier-shell-group","supplier-velocys-inc","supplier-ventech-engineers-international-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16102"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}