Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- As previously reported, the Uzbekneftegaz GTL plant will process 3.6 billion cubic meters of purified natural gas (methane) per year and produce 1.5 million tons of high-quality synthetic liquid fuel, including more 307 thousand tons of jet fuel, 724 thousand tons of diesel fuel, 437 thousand tons of oil, naphtha, which is a raw material for the chemical industry, 53 thousand tons of liquefied gas.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is a fuel that is a mixture of propane and butane formed under pressure. During the production process, the cluster changes and transitions from a gaseous state to a liquid state, due to which the volume is reduced, which facilitates further transportation and distribution.

It is also a fuel, available even in the most remote corners of the country, which will help improve the lives of millions of citizens and provide additional impetus to regional development. Since relatively few rural or remote areas can benefit from piped natural gas, LPG is an ideal energy source for these areas.

When heating a home, LPG helps consumers to significantly reduce their carbon footprint. In Europe, LPG reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 15% than heating with fuel oil.

LPG is also one of the lowest carbon emitting fuels for cooking in many regions of the world. In India, for example, LPG emits 60% less greenhouse gases than electric coil hobs, 50% less emissions than some biomass stoves, and 19% less greenhouse gases than kerosene stoves.

For example, in India, LPG produces 60 and 19 percent less exhaust fumes than electric coil cooktops and kerosene stoves, respectively, and 50 percent less emissions than biomass stoves.

When used as a transport fuel, LPG emits 10-12% less CO2 than other hydrocarbon fuels when burned.

It should be noted that in terms of efficiency and environmental friendliness, liquefied petroleum gas has an advantage over gasoline and diesel fuel, therefore it is widely used in various industries. And GTL naphtha is a highly paraffinic product, practically does not contain aromatic hydrocarbons or sulfur and, at the same time, contains a small amount of metal impurities.

GTL Naphtha is a valuable raw material for the petrochemical industry and its most important process - steam cracking. In this process, naphtha, like other feedstocks such as ethane, LPG, Hydrovax, gas oil or other suitable hydrocarbons, is cracked at retention times typically in the range of 200 to 500 ms and at temperatures from 800 ° C to 850 ° C in the presence of steam. Pyrolysis is used to obtain ethylene and related products (propylene, butylene, butadiene). Ethylene and propylene are the main substances that are used, in particular, for the production of plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene. The effectiveness of GTL naphtha is due to the fact that when it is used as a raw material, the yield of the product and the quality of the final product increase.

GTL Naphtha has a high content of paraffinic hydrocarbons and a low content of aromatics compared to petrochemical naphtha produced by the refinery.

One of the advantages of GTL naphtha over conventional naphtha is the percentage of paraffin content, which is 98%, which is significantly higher than that of conventional naphtha with a standard specification of 65-75% paraffin content.

Another advantage of using GTL naphtha is the low coking rate of the kiln tubes during the cracking process, which allows to increase the service life of the process equipment.