Plasma-Assisted Reforming of Natural Gas for GTL: Part II—Modeling of the Methane–Oxygen Reformer

Computer modeling has been used to provide more detailed information about the alternative catalyst-free methane-oxygen reformer for a small scale gas-to-liquid module. The basic input data include 3-MPa process pressure, oxygen as oxidizer, and oxidizer/fuel equivalence ratio about 3 to provide H₂ to CO ratio ≥1.7 needed for further direct liquefaction via Fisher-Tropsch processing. As a result, a reasonable temperature level of the reformer walls has been achieved that makes possible its engineering as the next step.