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Status Review of Fischer-Tropsch Slurry Reactor Catalyst/Wax Separation Techniques - 1991

Zhou, P. Z.
Srivastava, R. D.

U.S. Department of Energy
Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center

Table of Contents 59kb

Section 1
653kb		 Executive Summary 1
I Introduction 5
 

1

 Background 5

2

 Scope of Report 6
II Related Properties of Wax-Slurries From Fischer-Tropsch Reactors 7
 

1

 Reactor Wax 7

2

 Catalyst Particles 9
III Basic Requirements of Slurry Catalyst/Wax Separation 11
IV Catalyst/Wax Separation Inside the Slurry Reactor 13
V Vacuum Distillation 15
VI Thermal Cracking of Vacuum Bottoms 16
VII Sedimentation 17
VIII Filtration 19
Section 2
403kb		 IX Centrifugation 21
  1 Hydroclones 21
2 Centrifuges 21
X Solvent-Assisted Catalyst/Wax Separation 23
XI Magnetic Separation 24
XII Chemical Methods 28
XIII Comments 29
XIV Research Recommendations 31
  References 33
Section 3
220kb		 Tables and Figures 36