Synthetic gasoline (syngas) may be produced from natural gas or coal via the conventional methanol-gasoline process. These processes produce methanol as an intermediate product, synthetic gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas as end products, and significant GHG emissions. The conventional coal and natural gas cases differ in the approach to generate syngas; however, from the syngas to gasoline via methanol production, the processes are the same.

The nuclear heat integration cases for methanol to gasoline are slightly different in their integration points for the coal and natural gas feedstocks. For the coal-to — gasoline process, hydrogen from nuclear-driven HTSE is used in the gasification process. Power from the reactor is used for compression and sulfur removal. For the natural gas-to-gasoline process, nuclear heat is used for the reforming process and electric power is used for compression. Nuclear integration provides significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions relative to the conventional (non-nuclear) case [3, 21, 22]