SSITKA Study of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis over Supported Catalysts

摘要

Supported cobalt catalysts are the preferred catalysts for the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of long chain paraffins from syngas made from natural gas. Alumina is typically used as a support for cobalt catalysts due to favorable mechanical properties, but cobalt supported on alumina has a limited reducibility due to a strong interaction between the support and the cobalt oxides (1-3). To a certain extent this can be overcome by promotion with easily reducible metal promoters, e.g. Pt (2, 4).