TITLE: Improved Catalysts for Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels from Syngas. Fourth Quarterly Technical Progress Report, July-September 1985.

INST.  AUTHOR: Union Carbide Corp., Tarrytown, NY. Tarrytown Technical Center.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1985,  312p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE86002262/INW

ABSTRACT:

The objective of the contract is to consolidate the advances made during the previous contract in the conversion of syngas to motor fuels usingMolecular Sieve-containing catalysts and to demonstrate the practical utility and economic value of the new catalyst/process systems with appropriate laboratory runs. Work on the program is divided into the following six tasks: (1) preparation of a detailed work plan covering the entire performance of the contract; (2) preliminary techno-economic assessment of the UCC catalyst/process system; (3) optimization of the most promising catalyst developed under prior contract; (4) optimization of the UCC catalyst system in a manner that will give it the longest possible service life; (5) optimization of a UCC process/catalyst system based upon a tubular reactor with a recycle loop containing the most promising catalyst developed under Tasks 3 and 4 studies; and (6) economic evaluation of the optimal performance found under Task 5 for the UCC process/catalyst system. Progress reports are presented for tasks 2 through 5. 232 figs., 19 tabs. (ERA citation 11:005023)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/70028-T5

CONTRACT  NUMBER: AC22-84PC70028