(1) Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, 3572 Iron Works Pike, 40511-8433 Lexington, KY, USA;(2) Present address: Paulsboro Research Laboratory, Mobil Research and Development Inc., 08066 Paulsboro, NJ, USA
Abstract:
Tracer studies with C labeled ethene show that for synthesis over a doubly promoted iron catalyst at 7 atm and ca. 60% CO conversion, higher carbon number products are formed from ethene initiation. About 10% of the added ethene (ethene/CO 0.02) is incorporated into C5+ products and that ca. 85% of the ethene that is incorporated does so by initiating chain growth.