Gasoline from natural gas by sulfur processing. Quarterly report, October 1994--December 1994

This report presents the work performed at the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) during the sixth program quarter from October to December 31, 1994, under Department of Energy (DOE) Contract No. DE-AC22-93PC92114. This program has coordinated funding for Task I from IGT`s Sustaining Membership Program (SMP), while DOE is funding Tasks 2 through 8. Progress in all tasks is reported here. The overall objective of this research project is to develop a catalytic process to convert natural gas to liquid transportation fuels. The process consists of two steps that each use catalysts and sulfur-containing intermediates: (1) converting natural gas to CS{sub 2} and (2) converting CS{sub 2} to gasoline-range liquids. Experimental data will be generated to demonstrate the potential of catalysts and the overall process. During this quarter, progress in the following areas has been made: (1) Two catalysts were prepared for the reaction of methane with hydrogen sulfide to produce carbon sulfide; (2) A total of 48 runs with catalysts IGT-MS-109 and IGT-MS-102 were performed for the methane with hydrogen sulfide reaction; (3) Methane conversion reached 100% at temperatures above 1000{degrees}C; (4) For IGT-MS-109 and IGT-MS-102, carbon disulfide was produced, but these catalysts also produced significant amounts of sulfurmore » and carbon.« less