

Author: Bell M.C.
Publisher: Maney Publishing
ISSN: 0008-4433
Source: Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, Vol.34, Iss.4, 1995-10, pp. : 331-341
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Abstract
Previous treatments of the thermodynamic equilibria in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis have ignored the thermodynamic properties of the catalyst. When the assumption is made that the metal is the catalyst, the oxidation state of the gas is fixed at the Pco2/Pco ratio, at which the metal catalyst oxidizes. Thermodynamic equilibria show that only cobalt and iron have PCO2 to PCO ratios, required to maintain the catalyst element as metal, that permit longer chain hydrocarbons to form. Nickel has a higher Pco2/Pco ratio, so that only methane is a stable synthesis product, and nickel is therefore only a methanation catalyst. Thermodynamic equilibria predict the correct operating temperatures and pressures for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on cobalt and iron catalysts. Thermodynamic equilibria also predict linear ASF plots with characteristic high methane and low ethane values. All of the extensive database of Sarup and Wojciechowski for synthesis on a cobalt catalyst is predicted by thermodynamic equilibria with a ∆
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