Synthetic fuel
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This article is about fuels produced from fossil fuels or biomass. For electrofuels produced from carbon dioxide, see Carbon-neutral fuel.
Synthetic fuel or synfuel is a liquid fuel, or sometimes gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which the syngas was derived from gasification of solid feedstocks such as coal or biomass or by reforming of natural gas.
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Common ways for refining synthetic fuels include the Fischer–Tropsch conversion,[1][2][better source needed] methanol to gasoline conversion,[3][better source needed] or direct coal liquefaction.[4][better source needed]