METHOD FOR MAKING A COBALT METAL FOAM CATALYST IN WHICH A COBALT CATALYST POWDER IS COATED ONTO THE SURFACE OF A METAL FOAM, THE COBALT METAL FOAM CATALYST, A THERMAL-MEDIUM-CIRCULATING HEAT-EXCHANGE REACTOR USING THE COBALT METAL FOAM CATALYST, AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LIQUID FUEL BY MEANS OF A FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS REACTION USING THE THERMAL-MEDIUM-CIRCULATING HEAT-EXCHANGE REACTOR

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cobalt metal foam catalyst including a metal foam coated with cobalt catalyst powder, a cobalt metal foam catalyst manufactured by the method, a thermal medium-circulated heat exchanger type reactor using the cobalt metal foam catalyst, and a method of producing liquid fuel by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using the reactor. An object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst, which is used to obtain high liquid fuel productivity even at a low CO conversion ratio because the reaction temperature can be kept stable by controlling reaction heat with high efficiency in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis so that the mass transfer characteristics of a catalyst layer can be improved, and a method of manufacturing the catalyst, a reactor filled with the catalyst, and a method of producing liquid fuel using the reactor. The method of manufacturing a cobalt metal foam catalyst includes the steps of: surface-pretreating a metal foam by atomic layer deposition (ALD) using trimethylaluminum ((CH3)3Al) and water to form an Al2O3 thin film; preparing a cobalt catalyst slurry composed of a mixture of alumina sol, cobalt catalyst powder and isopropyl alcohol; surface-coating the surface-pretreated metal foam with the cobalt catalyst slurry by dip coating; and drying and calcinating the surface-pretreated metal foam coated with the cobalt catalyst slurry.