The invention discloses a process for synthesizing
natural gas by
methanation of
coal synthesis gas, which comprises the following steps of: dispersing a fresh
methanation catalyst into an
inert liquid medium, delivering the medium into a
slurry bed methanation reactor to perform reduction, performing methanation reaction on the transformed methanation raw gas after the reduction is finished, delivering the
tail gas to a gas-liquid separator I, discharging the
slurry liquid component and the catalyst in the
tail gas from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator I, discharging the
gas phase in the
tail gas from the top of the gas-liquid separator I, delivering partial
slurry liquid component containing the catalyst into a gas-liquid separator II, discharging the
gas phase from the top of thegas-liquid separator II, merging the gas phases discharged from the tops of the gas-liquid separators I and II, cooling and purifying the gas phases to obtain synthesized
natural gas, discharging theslurry liquid component containing the catalyst from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator II, merging the slurry liquid component discharged from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator II and the slurry liquid component and the catalyst discharged from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator I, discharging 1 to 5 percent of the weight sum of the slurry liquid component and the catalyst separatedfrom the two gas-liquid separators, and performing methanation reaction on the cooled rest slurry liquid component and catalyst and the fresh methanation catalyst dispersed into the insert
liquid medium together. The process has the advantages of low
power consumption and low equipment investment, and is easy to operate.