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Can you not simply roughly double the pressure you store it at? Or is LPG already stored at borderline risky pressures.


Vapor pressure is exponentially related to temperature; you really need to keep it cold.


If you really want to produce a liquid transportation fuel from methane, the usual approach is F-T synthesis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

Generally, it hasn't been very economical to do so, although I wonder what the numbers are now that we've got so much natural gas production in the US.




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