TITLE: Performance Testing with a Gas-Liquid-Solid System in a Mechanically-Stirred Reactor: The Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis.

AUTHOR: T. J. Donnelly;   C. N. Satterfield.

INST.  AUTHOR: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Dept. of Chemical Engineering.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1987,  46p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE89013680/INW

ABSTRACT:

Careful attention to reactor operating procedures and methods of product trapping and analysis is required to obtain accurate and reliable data on selectivity and kinetics when a wide variety of products are formed.  Useful methods are discussed in detail. The focus of attention is on use of iron-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts studied in a well-mixed slurry reactor, but many of the findings apply to other catalysts and reactor systems used for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis or to other reactions in which a complex mixture of products is formed. Some apparent discrepancies in the literature regarding catalyst activity and selectivity in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis are explained by analysis of the pertinent experimental systems. 50 refs., 4 figs., 2 tabs.

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/80015-T4

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-85PC80015