USE OF MULTI-METALLIC BIFUNCTIONAL CATALYSTS FOR THE CONVERSION OF COAL DERIVED SYNTHESIS GAS TO METHANOL

摘要

Several metal carbonyls have been found to produce methanol from Co/H2 under conditions similar to those reported earlier for Mo(CO)6. C02(C0)8 was found to produce ethanol as well as methanol under these conditions.nThe intermetal1ic compound FeTi was found to catalyze the reduction of CO and CO2 to methanol. In addition, C02 reduction yielded small amounts of methanol. The appearance of CH4 was linear with time for both CO and CO. C02 reduction was faster than that observed for CO.