Revealing property-performance relationships for efficient CO2 hydrogenation to higher hydrocarbons over Fe-based catalysts: Statistical analysis of literature data and its experimental validation

摘要

CO2 hydrogenation into C2+-hydrocarbons is an attractive way to mitigate the green-house effect and provides new opportunities to produce valuable chemicals from the longer available raw material. The present manuscript introduces and experimentally validates a mathematical approach for identifying fundamentals affecting catalyst performance to provide guidelines for tailored catalyst design or for reactor operation. Literature data were analyzed by regression trees, ANOVA, and comparison of mean values.