R. I. 5137 - Synthesis of Methane

Murray Greyson^1/
J. J. Demeter²^/
M. D. Schlesinger²^/
G. E. Johnson²^/
James Jonakin³^/
J. W. Myers^{4 5}^/

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Section 1 697kb	Summary			1
	Introduction			1
	General			2
	Chemistry and thermodynamics			3
Section 2 886kb	Experimental program			17
		Experimental procedures		18
			Criteria of catalyst and process evaluation	18
			Synthesis gas	19
			Gas analysis	19
			Catalysts: Preparation and pretreatment	19
	Fixed-bed testing			20
		Equipment description		20
		Operating procedures		23
		Results		23
		Discussion		26
	Fluidized-bed testing			26
		Conventional bed		26
			Equipment description	26
			Operating procedures	29
Section 3 917kb			Results of iron-catalyst tests in conventional bed	31
			Discussion of iron-catalyst tests in conventional bed	34
			Results and discussion of nickel-catalysts tests in conventional bed	38
		Multiple-feed bed		40
			General	40
			Equipment description	40
			Operating procedures	43
			Results of nickel-catalyst tests in multiple feed bed	46
			Discussion of nickel-catalyst tests in multiple-feed bed	49
	Conclusions			50

5/ In preparing this report the authors were assisted by J. F. Shultz and his staff who handled the fixed-bed testing phase of the work, F. J. Schoeneweis who prepared catalysts, A. J. Sharkey who made the mass-spectrometer analyses, M. E. Kundick who made chemical analyses of catalysts and products, and Mrs. W. Peebles who made X-ray analyses of catalysts.