The highly selective production of light olefins from CO2 was demonstrated for the first time with a laboratory-scale process comprising consecutive reverse water gas shift (RWGS) and Fischer–Tropsch (FT) reactors. RWGS reaction, catalyzed by rhodium washcoated catalyst at 850 °C yielded good quality syngas conversion values close to thermodynamic equilibrium without experiencing deactivation c...

Fischer–Tropsch (FT) synthesis is a process in which synthesis gas (CO/H2) is catalytically converted into hydrocarbons and oxygenates via surface polymerizations. With this process, clean liquid fuels can be made from abundant natural gas reserves and renewable biomass sources, after first being converted to synthesis gas. In the last several decades, FT synthesis has attracted renewed attenti...

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a commercial cobalt catalyst (Albemarle) has been carried out under various combinations of two process parameters, viz. reaction pressure and GHSV (gas hourly space velocity) using synthesis gas with molar ratio of H2/CO = 2. The optimum set of reaction parameters that yielded hydrocarbon product in the desired carbon number range of C10-C14 and chain growth prob...

The sonochemical synthesis of nanostructured materials owes its origins to the extreme conditions created during acoustic cavitation, i.e., the formation of localized hot spots in the core of collapsing bubbles in a liquid irradiated with high intensity ultrasound (US). In particular, in the present work a sonochemical synthesis has been investigated for the production of three different iron-b...

Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis is one of the most complex catalyzed chemical reactions in which the chain-growth mechanism that leads to formation of long-chain hydrocarbons is not well understood yet. The present work provides deeper insight into the relation between the kinetics of the FT reaction on a silica-supported cobalt catalyst and the composition of the surface adsorbed layer. Cofeedi...

The kinetics of the transformation metallic Fe to active carbide phase at start Fischer–Tropsch (FT) reaction were studied. diffusion rates C atoms going in or out lattice determined using 13C-labeled synthesis gas combination with measurements transient 12C and 13C contents by temperature-programmed hydrogenation. In initial 20 min, diffuses rapidly into occupying thermodynamically very stable...

The influence of copper promoters and reaction conditions on the formation of alcohols byproducts of a common Fischer-Tropsch synthesis used iron-based catalysts were investigated. A good compromise of 28%Cu/FeKLaSiO2 can lead to the optimization of an improved Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. The product distribution shifts towards hydrocarbons with increasing the reaction temperature, while pressure...

kinetic modeling is an important issue, whose objective is the accurate determination of the rates of various reactions taking place in a reacting system. this issue is a pivotal element in the process design and development particularly for novel processes which are based on reactions taking place between various types of species. the fischer tropsch (ft) reactions have been used as the kineti...

In industrial scale of Gas to Liquid (GTL) process in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, a part of reactor outlet gases such as CO2 and CH4 as side reaction products, is usually recycled. In this study, the influence of CO2 and CH4 on the performance and selectivity of Co-Ru/Al2O3 catalyst is investigated by injection of these gases (0-20 vol. % of feed) to the feed stream. The effect of temperatu...

Industrial bubble column reactor for Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis includes complex hydrodynamic, chemical and thermal interaction of three material phases: population of bubbles of different sizes, liquid and catalyst particles suspended in liquid. To simulate FT bubble column, a Computational Fluid Dynamics model is described here. The model is based on Eulerian multifluid formulation and ac...