Patent ID: 7001574

Claim:
Apparatus for processing a low molecular weight gas-phase hydrocarbon in order to provide a high molecular weight, liquid-phase hydrocarbon, compression ignition fuel, comprising: a catalytic partial oxidation reactor having an input and an output; a platinum-group catalyst within said catalytic partial oxidation reactor; supply means for supplying a pressurized oxygen-containing gas such as air and a pressurized low molecular weight gas-phase hydrocarbon to said input of said catalytic partial oxidation reactor; a synthesis reactor having an input connected to said output of said catalytic partial oxidation reactor, and having an output; a second catalyst within said synthesis reactor; said second catalyst including from about 3 to about 60 parts-by-weight cobalt and from about 0.1 to about 100 parts-by-weight of at least one metal selected from a group consisting of cerium, lanthanum, platinum and ruthenium per 100 parts-by-weight of a support selected from a group consisting of silica, alumina and combinations of silica and alumina; and a first liquid separator having an input connected to said output of said synthesis reactor, and having an output providing said high molecular weight, liquid-phase hydrocarbon, compression-ignition fuel.