TITLE: Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis in Slurry-Reactor Systems. Quarterly Report, November 1, 1981 to January 31, 1982.

AUTHOR: C. N. Satterfield;   T. Bartos;   G. A. Huff;   H. Stenger.

INST.  AUTHOR: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1982,  16p.

NTIS REPORT NO.: DE82008199

ABSTRACT:

A detailed study of mass transfer effects with a reduced fused magnetite catalyst has now been completed and is summarized in an appended paper, Mass Transfer and Product Selectivity in a Mechanically-Stirred Fischer-Tropsch Slurry Reactor, by Charles N. Satterfield and George A. Huff, Jr. Analysis of our heavier hydrocarbon products indicates that they yield a value of alpha = 0.93 on a Flory plot, considerably higher than the values of alpha of about 0.7 found with lighter products. Iron catalysts may exhibit two kinds of sites with considerably different kinetic behavior. At the request of Drs. Sapienza and Sleigeir of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, we ran a sample of their SOSS catalyst in our reactor facility at 100 psig. Activity was low, but this may have been because this particular catalyst is possibly better suited for higher pressures. (ERA citation 08:017031)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/40771-3

CONTRACT  NUMBER: FG22-81PC40771