Patent ID: 9587183
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: C10G,C10L

Claim:
1. A process for production of a middle distillate fraction from a gas-to-liquid (GTL) conversion comprising the steps of: (a) providing a feed stream comprising a natural gas and separating a condensate from the natural gas feed stream to produce a condensate stream and a natural gas feed stream; (b) processing the natural gas feed stream via a Fischer-Tropsch reaction to generate a long chain hydrocarbon product stream; (c) processing the long chain hydrocarbon product stream via a heavy paraffinic conversion step in order to produce a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) product stream; (d) treating the condensate stream of step (a) with a desulfurization step to generate a condensate product stream; (e) combining the FT product stream of step (c) with the condensate product stream of step (d) in order to provide a distillate feed stream; and (f) performing a distillation step on the distillation feed stream, wherein the distillation step provides for isolation of middle distillate products; wherein the steps (b) to (c) occur substantially concurrently with step (d).