TITLE: Catalyst and Reactor Development for a Liquid Phase Fischer-Tropsch Process. Quarterly Technical Progress Report, 1 October-31 December 1980.

AUTHOR: J. W. Brockington;   P. N. Dyer;   R. Pierantozzi;   J. V. Bauer.

INST.  AUTHOR: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  Jan 81,  86p.

ABSTRACT:

Air Products, under contract to the DOE, has begun a three year program in Catalyst and Reactor Development for a Liquid Phase Fischer-Tropsch Process. The program contains four major tasks: (1) Project Work Plan, (2) Slurry Catalyst Development, (3) Slurry Reactor Design Studies, and (4) Pilot Facility Design. Task 1 has been completed with the preparation of a Project Work Plan describing in detail the methods and technical approach to be used. Task 2 has four sub-tasks. The first segment of the background studies deals with the effect of metal particle size on product selectivity and is included in this report. Based on these background studies, ten of twenty modified traditional Fischer-Tropsch catalysts to be prepared and slurry phase tested have been identified. Slurry reactor specifications have been finalized and a comprehensive product analysis scheme and data handling system has been established. Forty of the fifty supported metal cluster catalysts to be prepared and gas phase screened have been identified. Two metal cluster catalysts have been prepared. A detailed experimental plan for the first phase of Task 3 using a 5-inch diameter cold flow reactor simulator has been completed. (ERA citation 06:029848)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/30021-T5

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-80PC30021