NEW publication in Journal of CO2 utilization

In this work by Anas Abdulrahman, Miloš contributed during his PostDoc stay at LCT UGent; we studied the CO2-to-chemicals route based on FT synthesis and hydrocracking of FT products.

When steam-cracking the oils at 880 °C, the crude FT oil produced 38% more ethylene than fossil naphtha, while the yield of pyrolysis fuel oil (C10+) was halved. Further upgrading to hydrotreated FT naphtha increased the ethylene advantage to 48% and reduced pyrolysis fuel oil formation to one-third of that with fossil naphtha. The higher ethylene selectivity led to a 27% reduction in cracker-level CO₂ intensity compared with fossil naphtha. These results demonstrate that CO2-derived FT feedstocks can serve as clean, high-yield alternatives for light olefin production within existing petrochemical infrastructure.

Feel free to read this open-access work: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212982026002441