The impact of modular chemical process intensification (MCPI) on distributed gas conversion

The rise in natural gas production and the shift in the demand slate for fuels & chemical products has create a significant potential opportunity for new technologies in gas conversion. However, there exist significant challenges in the space of gas conversion including (1) high capital costs that drive projects to very large scale to achieve improved capital efficiencies, (2) significant thermodynamic/kinetic challenges in existing gas conversion technologies, and (3) significant downstream separation costs. Process intensification and its application to modular processing has the potential to address all three of these hurdles.



RAPID is a public-private institute that is focused on catalyzing change in the process industries through the use of MCPI. In this talk we will look at the case for MCPI as applied to gas conversion, we will lay out key gaps in the gas conversion space that have been identified in the area of gas conversion, and we will give a short review of 4 projects that RAPID is currently funding in the area of gas conversion.