Here are some of the comments/questions from the group's first presentation:

- Professor Meyer brought up that cobalt might be a better catalyst choice than iron. He mentioned
that the FTL refinery in Qatar utilizes a slurry column bubble reactor, but it uses a cobalt catalyst.
Cobalt will give a greater percentage of diesel in the product streams.
- He also commented that the excess H2 in the reactor is a valuable product and Foxtrot may not
want to use the reverse water gas shift reaction to consume it.
- The slurry column bubble reactor is neither a CSTR or plugflow reactor. It is not ideal and further
research may be required to find an appropriate correlation.
- This process produces a good deal of water, so Foxtrot needs to take that into consideration and
design a method for dealing with it.
- Foxtrot wasn't able to pinpoint a specific product distribution. It was noticed that the product
distribution table (from de Klerk's book) in Foxtrot's presentation indicated almost 15% of gasoline in
the product stream, but this wasn't addressed by the group.
- A good deal of naptha is produced and Foxtrot shouldn't disregard this product as invaluable. It
can easily be sold to other refineries.
- Foxtrot also needs to indicate what technologies will be used in the oligomerization and distillation
units.
- By the next presentation, the energy in and energy out of the FTL plant needs to be indicated. This
should be done in order to indicate what kind of profit the plant is capable of making.
- Foxtrot should research the prices of natural gas and crude oil for the next presentation. These
values can be plotted against the retail price of diesel to demonstrate a trend that the missed in the
presentation.

Second presentation

- It was suggested the we use Platt's for pricing as opposed to EIA.

- We will need isobutane and propylene to produce gasoline with alkylation.
- Our TIC is most likely 2 to 3 times higher than we previously thought.
- Professor Meyer suggested that we use Flory Huggins distribution model for our FT reactor.

Third Presentation:

Foxtrot needs to research if the Ni/SPA catalyst use is commercialized. If not

commercialized, a hydrotreater is required after the Oligomerization unit.

Cooling water or air coolers can be used to reduce the temperature of LPG stream.

Distillation columns for the next presentation must be presented individually, having their
respective relevant sizing parameters such as diameter.

How much h2/barrel feed is required for the Hydrocracker and Oligomerization? Once this
is known, we can get the capacity and volume basis to get the ball park price.

Hydrocrackers are very expensive, 250MM$.

Both the hydrocracker and oligomerization units are fixed beds (multiple packed beds)

Oligomerization process works best for the Motor gasoline production and Adam suggested
to not send the hot condensate to the oligomerization unit.
On page 452 of Fundamentals of Industrial Catalytic Processes, it talks about have 10 ppb or less
of nitrogen content in the syngas. Slow, permanent poisoning is generally not a concern with Fe
catalysts, but S content should be kept to less than 20 ppb with Co catalysts. We should add these
specs to to feed stock section of our powerpoint.

-Brandon

Here are some of the comments/questions from the group's first presentation:

- Professor Meyer brought up that cobalt might be a better catalyst choice than iron. He mentioned
that the FTL refinery in Qatar utilizes a slurry column bubble reactor, but it uses a cobalt catalyst.
Cobalt will give a greater percentage of diesel in the product streams.
- He also commented that the excess H2 in the reactor is a valuable product and Foxtrot may not
want to use the reverse water gas shift reaction to consume it.
- The slurry column bubble reactor is neither a CSTR or plugflow reactor. It is not ideal and further
research may be required to find an appropriate correlation.
- This process produces a good deal of water, so Foxtrot needs to take that into consideration and
design a method for dealing with it.
- Foxtrot wasn't able to pinpoint a specific product distribution. It was noticed that the product
distribution table (from de Klerk's book) in Foxtrot's presentation indicated almost 15% of gasoline in
the product stream, but this wasn't addressed by the group.
- A good deal of naptha is produced and Foxtrot shouldn't disregard this product as invaluable. It
can easily be sold to other refineries.
- Foxtrot also needs to indicate what technologies will be used in the oligomerization and distillation
units.
- By the next presentation, the energy in and energy out of the FTL plant needs to be indicated. This
should be done in order to indicate what kind of profit the plant is capable of making.
- Foxtrot should research the prices of natural gas and crude oil for the next presentation. These
values can be plotted against the retail price of diesel to demonstrate a trend that the missed in the
presentation.

Here are some of the comments/questions from the group's second presentation:

- It was suggested the we use Platt's for pricing as opposed to EIA.

- We will need isobutane and propylene to produce gasoline with alkylation.
- Our TIC is most likely 2 to 3 times higher than we previously thought.
- Professor Meyer suggested that we use Flory Huggins distribution model for our FT reactor.