TITLE: Particle Synthesis and Properties of Zeolite Catalysts for Synthesis Gas-Gasoline Conversion. Final Report, February 18, 1981-February 17, 1984.

AUTHOR: G. W. Dodwell;   L. B. Sand.

INST.  AUTHOR: Worcester Polytechnic Inst., MA. 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],  15 Jun 84,  403p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE84016246/INW

ABSTRACT:

Conventional Shultz-Flory catalysts suffer from the inherent non-selective product distributions of Shultz-Floryian kinetics. Development of the Mobil M technology is the first major breakthrough in synthetic fuel technology in 5 decades. To utilize the Mobil M technology, synthesis gas produced from the gasification of coal must first be converted to methanol. The high pressures and/or high recycle ratios necessary because of the thermodynamics of the methanol synthesis reaction, make the overall cost of this approach prohibitive in today's economy. The logical extension of the Mobil M technology is to use bifunctional Pentasil based catalysts to provide a single reactor route from synthesis gas to high octane gasoline. Various methods exist to incorporate the CO reduction function with the Pentasil zeolite. The direct synthesis approach which has been largely overlooked by  investigators to date, will be emphasized in this research. 193 references, 110 figures, 28 tables. (ERA citation 10:020117)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/40773-T2

CONTRACT  NUMBER: FG22-81PC40773