LINC synthetic Diesel

[ian]

I just watched a show on Land Line where a company called LINC is producing Synthetic Diesel they used a VW diesel and drove from QLD to Perth using their own Synthetic fuel.



Gas company to increase aviation fuel production - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Video

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...08/3186535.htm

[Frankenstrat]

I missed that, my wife is a regular watcher of LL but she didn't tell me about that story. Thanks for the link.

[Greg Roles]

Yeah as prices start to get silly we will see more and more of this, a lot of people experimenting in the USofA with various things to use as the base. Thanks for the link, most interesting!

[Transporter]

No matter how much of that fuel we would have, we would be still paying the world's prices at the pump, the only difference will be that somebody will get very rich, from it (no need to buy the crude from the Arabs).

[kaanage]

The only thing new here is using this in Australia - the South Africans have been producing liquid fuel with the Fischer-Tropsch method for decades and th Germans developed it during World War II when most of their crude oil supplies got cut off.
I remember studying the South African plant in 1985 during Uni and thinking "That's got to be useful for us one day..."

A South African told me that the Sasol distillate needs sulfur to be added to get the level up to 50ppm

Here's a company statement from Feb http://www.lincenergy.com/data/asxpdf/ASX-LNC-318.pdf
And here are some nice presentations on the history and technology http://fischer-tropsch.org/primary_d...tationstoc.htm and loads more information in other parts of this site