Velocys’ Microchannel Reactor Receives CWC World XTL Award

One of Velocys, Inc.’s Fischer Tropsch (FT) microchannel reactors in combination with Oxford Catalysts’ active FT catalyst has been awarded the CWC World XTL award 2010 by Shell Projects and Technology’s VP XTL Guy de Kort during the CWC 10th Annual World XTL Summit located in London on May 11, 2010.

The reactor can function economically even at low daily outputs of 500 barrels and achieves productivities greater than that of conventional FT reactors. This technology facilitates the production of liquid biofuels from waste feedstocks such as municipal waste in situ, thereby avoiding the necessity to ship voluminous amounts of waste to processing plants. Currently, a demonstration biofuels facility that utilizes gasified woodchips for feedstock and comprises the FT microchannel reactor is being built at Güssing, Austria.

Small-scale offshore and onshore gas-to-liquids (GTL) and steam methane reforming intensification are some of the other microchannel technology applications currently being demonstrated and developed by Oxford Catalysts.