Field Scale Testing of the Thermocatalytic Ethylene Production Process Using Ethane and Actual Coal Fired Flue Gas Co₂

Technical Report · Thu Mar 30 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1862214· OSTI ID:1862214

Cassidy, Joel ^[1]

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1. Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL (United States); Southern Research Institute

This report provides a summary of the work performed and results obtained from a project supported by the US DOE (DE-FE0031713). In this study, Southern Research (SR) completed field-scale demonstration of a rationally designed novel nano-engineered catalyst driven thermochemical process to produce high yield of ethylene by using CO₂ derived from actual coal-fired flue gas and ethane. This process, referred to here as “CO₂-ODH” due to CO₂ use via oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) mechanism, follows a modified pathway to classical steam cracking (SC) process of ethylene production thus paving the way for significantly reduced CO₂ footprint, marginally improved thermodynamics, higher product selectivity and lower reaction temperatures.

• Research Organization: Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
• DOE Contract Number: FE0031713
• OSTI ID: 1862214
• Report Number(s): DOESR0031713
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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