TITLE: Catalyst and Reactor Development for a Liquid Phase Fischer-Tropsch Process: Final Report for Task 4.

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],  1989,  92p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE90002794INW

ABSTRACT:

The US Department of Energy contracted with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. to design a bench-scale bubble column reactor unit for Fischer-Tropsch slurry catalyst operations. The resulting process design includes the reaction, wax withdrawal, and product fractionation sections of a bench scale Fischer-Tropsch reactor. The design of the bench-scale Fischer-Tropsch reactor (BFTR) is based upon reaction rates and product yields measured with the slurry-phase catalysts that Air Products developed and evaluated in Task 2 of this contract and on results of a cold-flow hydrodynamic study of the bubble-column reactor that was conducted under Task 3 of the contract. The goal of Task 4 is to design the reactor and wax withdrawal portions of the reactor and estimate total cost of the system. 5 refs., 2 figs., 17 tabs.

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/30021-T22

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-80PC30021