TITLE: Technology development for iron Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. Technical progress report No. 5, September 26, 1991--December 26, 1991.

AUTHOR: R. R. Frame;   H. B. Gala.

INST.  AUTHOR: UOP, Inc., Des Plaines, IL.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  22 Dec 92,  30p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE93008105INW

ABSTRACT:

Objective is to develop producing active, stable iron Fischer-Tropsch catalysts for use in slurry-phase synthesis reactors and to synthesize such catalysts on a large scale for process development and long-term testing in slurry bubble-column reactors. A mixed oxalate of Fe, Cu, and K was prepared; a catalyst will be prepared from this material. An evaluation run was performed on an Fe-based UCI catalyst, which was shown to produce low levels of C(sub 1) and C(sub 2) paraffins; e.g., at the end of the run, when the catalyst was converting 60% of the CO, the C(sub 1) and C(sub 2) paraffin selectivities were 4.2 and 1.0, respectively.

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/90055-T6

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-90PC90055