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Technology

A Breakthrough Technology to Make
Transportation Fuels and Valuable Products From Natural Gas


Breakthrough Catalyst

Innovating at the forefront of chemical engineering, Carbon Sciences is developing a breakthrough technology to make cleaner and greener transportation fuels and other valuable products from natural gas. Our highly scalable, clean-tech process will enable the world to reduce its dependence on petroleum by transforming abundant and affordable natural gas into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and other valuable, large volume products, such as hydrogen, methanol, ammonia, solvents, plastics and detergent alcohols. The key to this process is a patented, breakthrough catalyst that can reduce the cost of reforming natural gas into synthetic gas (syngas), the most costly step in making products from natural gas.

Syngas is a gas mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2). It is primarily made from the reforming of natural gas (CH4) through different application-specific processes such as steam reforming, partial oxidation, auto-thermal reforming, and dry reforming. Once syngas is created, different downstream processes are used to make final products. For example, Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids (GTL) processes are used to convert syngas directly into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

In all syngas based applications, the natural gas reforming step is the most costly step and is facilitated by a catalyst.

The patented Carbon Sciences catalyst is a next generation natural gas reforming catalyst that can reduce the cost and increase the production of syngas by:

  • Significantly reducing the use of cost intensive steam
  • Eliminating a capital intensive oxygen plant
  • Using less energy, which reduces CO2 emissions
  • Consuming CO2 to enable, for the first time, the economical use of gas fields with high CO2 content

By reducing the cost of syngas production, we aim to unlock the potential of natural gas as a cleaner and greener alternative to petroleum for the production of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products.