TITLE: Development of a stable cobalt-ruthenium Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. Technical progress report No. 16.

AUTHOR: R. R. Frame;   H. B. Gala.

INST.  AUTHOR: UOP, Inc., Des Plaines, IL.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1994,  28p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE94013075INW

ABSTRACT:

Initial experiments have been performed to determine the best activation procedure for the high cobalt, high activity, Y zeolite-supported F-T catalyst. At this time the temperature used for the lower cobalt-level catalyst appears to be the best. Future activation experiments should be done at lower temperatures, but for longer periods of time. The runs outlined in this report and several in earlier reports were done with the standard reactor loading of 13 g but with high activity catalysts. In all of these runs a significant temperature exotherm was observed on the catalyst bed. In future runs less catalyst will be used with the same or more quartz sand diluent. This should reduce or eliminate the catalyst bed exotherm and make it easier to evaluate two different catalysts at the same temperature.

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/89869-T15

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-89PC89869