MaximaLabs

Alcohol-to-jet, carbon conserved at every step

Bio-ethanol dehydrated to ethylene, oligomerized toward the jet carbon-number range and hydrogenated to a real synthetic paraffin.

Three reaction steps, atom-balanced end to endProduct lands in the real jet carbon-number bandConversion models, not invented kinetics — stated on the page
Bio-ethanol
Dehydration reactor
Water separator
Water
Oligomerization
Hydrogen
Mix
Hydrogenation
Fractionation
Light ends
SAF (n-decane)

The actual dark-mode canvas: ethanol dehydrated to ethylene, the water knocked out, the olefin grown to the decene range and saturated with hydrogen, then fractionated to a jet-range paraffin.

Carbon is conserved across all three steps

Each step closes its own atom balance, so the ethanol-to-jet carbon yield is a solved number rather than an assumed one. Scope note: all three reactions are stoichiometric conversion models — this solver ships no ethanol-dehydration or oligomerization kinetics, and inventing a rate law here would fabricate the data that decides the answer.

C2H5OHC2H4+H2O(dehydration)\mathrm{C_2H_5OH} \longrightarrow \mathrm{C_2H_4} + \mathrm{H_2O} \quad \text{(dehydration)}
5C2H4C10H20(oligomerization to the jet range)5\,\mathrm{C_2H_4} \longrightarrow \mathrm{C_{10}H_{20}} \quad \text{(oligomerization to the jet range)}
C10H20+H2C10H22(hydrogenation to a paraffin)\mathrm{C_{10}H_{20}} + \mathrm{H_2} \longrightarrow \mathrm{C_{10}H_{22}} \quad \text{(hydrogenation to a paraffin)}

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Fixed-conversion reactor

A specified per-pass conversion on a key component — the shortcut counterpart to the equilibrium and kinetic reactors.

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Flash drum

Single-stage vapor-liquid equilibrium split at a fixed temperature/pressure.

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Mixer

Combines multiple streams into one, closing the mass and energy balance.

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Live plant integration

Stream dehydration and oligomerization reactor temperatures plus the fractionator cut point from the unit's OPC-UA server into this flowsheet's twin comparison — a conversion drifting off the solved balance shows up before the jet cut goes off-spec.

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  • Three reaction steps, each closing its own atom balance
  • Product lands in the genuine SAF carbon-number band
  • Conversion models, not invented kinetics — and the page says so

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