TITLE: FeTi Methanation Catalyst.

AUTHOR: J. R. Lynch;   L. D. Spaulding;   R. S. Sapienza.

INST.  AUTHOR: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  Jun 78,  12p.

NOTES: American Chemical Society meeting, Miami, FL, USA, 10 Sep 1978.

ABSTRACT:

The intermetallic compound FeTi was found to catalyze the reduction of CO and CO sub 2 to methane by hydrogen. CO reduction yielded traces of ethane as did CO sub 2 , in addition, CO sub 2 reduction yielded small amounts of methanol. The appearance of CH sub 4 was linear with time for both CO and CO sub 2 and the rate of CO sub 2 reduction was faster than that observed for CO. The product distribution and rate data lend support to and will be discussed in terms of the newly proposed oxide theory for Fischer-Tropsch and related synthesis. (ERA citation 03:054771)

REPORT  NUMBER: CONF-780902-1

CONTRACT  NUMBER: EY-76-C-02-0016