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Texas A&M, Synfuels Partnership Develops Revolutionary Technology
With the help of a Texas A&M University chemical engineering professor, a Dallas-based gas-to-liquids (GTL) energy firm has developed what it labels as the industry's first commercially viable process for converting natural gas into usable fuels.
Expanding on a
process conceived by Kenneth Hall, a professor in the university’s
Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and the associate
director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Synfuels
International, Inc., has patented a method for refining natural gas
that will enable the firm to take advantage of existing natural gas
deposits.
The announcement came Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at a press conference held at the Synfuels research and demonstration plant in Bryan, Texas.
The result could mean millions of barrels of new petroleum products –
all produced more efficiently and in an environmentally friendly method
that helps reduce sources of global warming.
See the full article at Texas A&M University News & Information here.