Planned Task and Milestone Schedule

1

Objectives

2

Work Accomplished This Quarter

2

Seventh Quarter’s Technical Report

3

1.

Operation of SBCR

3

2.

Ether Synthesis During FT Reaction

4

2.1

Introduction

4

2.2

Experimental

4

2.2.1

Reaction System

4

2.2.2

Preparation of Catalysts

7

2.2.3

Dual Bed Experiments

9

2.3

Results and Discussion

11

2.3.1

CO Hydrogenation

11

2.3.2

Addition of i-Butylene During CO Hydrogenation over Composite Catalysts

22

2.3.4

Addition of i0Butylene During CO Hydrogenation over a Dual-Bed Catalyst Arrangement

28

2.4

References

32

3.

Work Planned for Next Quarter

32