Minor reactions, accompanying the major reactions for building straight-chains of aliphatic hydrocarbons from the reactants CO and H2 on the surface of cobalt catalysts, can contribute substantially to the understanding of the regime of Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. This goal affords precise mass balances, precise determination of product composition and consistent kinetic schemes for obtaining the right kinetic coefficients. The concept of self-organization of the Fischer–Tropsch regime is established from time dependence of activity, selectivity and catalyst structure. A process of thermodynamically controlled restructuring/segregation of the cobalt surface is addressed and understood as activating the catalyst and specifically, disproportionating on-plane sites into sites of lower coordination (on-top sites) and higher coordination (in-hole sites). These different sites appear to collaborate in the Fischer–Tropsch regime, with steps of coordination chemistry (comparable to those of transition metal complexes) on on-top sites and dissociation (specifically of CO) on in-hole sites and further in principle suppressed reactions on on-plane sites. This concept is developed and illustrated here with the results of several investigations such as tracing of activity and selectivity during the initial episodes of synthesis, experiments with added (14C-labeled) olefins and variation of synthesis parameters to see their specific influences. As minor reactions of coordination chemistry on on-top sites, reversible CH2 cleavage from alkyl chains, CO insertion and ethene insertion are visualized. On on-plane sites CO methanation, olefin hydrogenation and olefin double bond shift are noticed, but much inhibited. As compared to Fischer–Tropsch on iron catalysts, the common Fischer–Tropsch principle appears to be the inhibition of chain desorption to allow for growth reactions of the adsorbed chains. Minor reactions and detailed kinetics on iron and cobalt catalysts differ basically. 相似文献
Cobalt based Fischer–Tropsch synthesis catalysts were prepared on carbon coated alumina supports. Carbon coating resulted in a decrease in the average cobalt crystallite size (down to 6 nm) and increased active cobalt metal surface area. Very importantly, the use of carbon on the alumina surface also altered the cobalt nitrate mechanism of binding and thermal decomposition, resulting in a significant change in the macroscopic cobalt distribution with improved inter-particle distances. The enhanced cobalt metal surface areas together with the significantly improved cobalt distribution/inter-particle distances resulted in cobalt Fischer–Tropsch synthesis catalysts with an activity that was increased by 40–75 % without having a negative influence on the methane selectivity. 相似文献
Effects of CO2 on low-temperature Fischer–Tropsch synthesis were investigated with four different cobalt catalysts in an experimental study. CO2 was found to behave as an inert gas component with three catalysts, however, a negative effect on Fischer–Tropsch reaction rate and catalyst deactivation was observed in one case (Co-La-Ru-SiO2). CO2 effects in a large-scale FTS slurry reactor were simulated by means of a mathematical reactor model using the kinetic information gained in the experiments. The reactor volume required for achieving a desired CO conversion must be higher if the syngas contains CO2, more strongly in cases where the catalyst exhibits a deactivation behavior in the presence of CO2. These model calculations can contribute to process optimization with respect to CO2 removal before synthesis. 相似文献
The polymerization kinetics of Fischer‐Tropsch reactions on a K‐promoted Fe catalyst was studied. To represent the product distribution, a kinetic model was developed based on alkyl and alkenyl mechanisms for hydrocarbon chain propagation, which were assumed to occur simultaneously in the Fischer‐Tropsch synthesis. The conclusion was drawn that superimposed Anderson‐Schulz‐Flory (ASF) distributions with different chain growth probabilities, on iron catalysts, can be the result of different chain growth mechanisms. The polymerization mechanism was used to obtain the product distribution for several conditions, and the optimum conditions for the production of transportation fuels were found. 相似文献
The iron loading of catalysts, supported on SiO2, was investigated between 10 and 75 wt%, with and without the addition of promoters (K and Cu), in order to highlight the different catalytic performances of the samples in the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. An optimization study of the prepared catalysts (active metal/promoters ratio, catalysts’ activation procedure before the Fischer–Tropsch runs, influence of the feeding gas composition) is reported. The mechanical resistance of the catalysts was also evaluated using a suitable method involving ultrasound. 相似文献
The effects of the particle size of a Fe/Cu/K catalyst on CO and CO2 hydrogenation reactions as well as the variation of crucial factors such as surface area and basicity, reduction, carburization, and catalytic behavior of precipitated Fe/Cu/K catalysts were evaluated. Hematite nanoparticle catalysts with various surface tensions were produced by homogeneous precipitation in alcohol/water solvents. The basicity of the K‐promoted iron catalyst was higher in iron catalysts with lower particle size. The increase in K‐basic sites at the surface of catalysts with smaller particle size was attributed to their higher surface areas. Elevation of catalyst basicity led to considerably stronger dissociative CO adsorption. Shifting the oxygen removal pattern to lower temperature was the consequence of faster nucleation of FeCx crystallites on promoted surface oxides. CO2 hydrogenation can occur in two distinct direct and indirect routes via the Fischer‐Tropsch mechanism. 相似文献
Although numerous efforts have been made in direct syngas conversion to higher alcohols via Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, the higher alcohols distribution remains a challenge. Here, we introduce alkaline earth metal oxide as promoter into activated carbon supported cobalt catalyst to tune distribution of higher alcohols. With the addition of Mg, the distribution of C2-5 alcohols increase from 41.2 to 75.8% accompanying with distribution of C6-18 alcohols decrease from 52.8 to 14.0%. Ba-promoted Co based catalyst (CoBa/AC) presents similar alcohols distribution to un-promoted catalyst, while the alcohol selectivity over CoBa/AC is higher than Co/AC. For promoted catalysts, the distribution of C6-18 alcohols increased in the order of Mg?<?Ca?<?Sr?<?Ba. The characterization results exhibit that the promoter addition facilitates the cobalt carbide formation, which leads to enhancement of selectivity to higher alcohols. The available active cobalt sites of promoted Co based catalysts increase in the same above order of Mg?<?Ca?<?Sr?<?Ba.
Catalysis Letters - The deactivation rate of 15%Co-6%K/Al2O3 Fischer–Tropsch catalyst during hydrogenation of CO2 to longer-chained hydrocarbons was investigated. The catalysts used were... 相似文献