Detailed kinetics of the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis over Co-based catalysts containing sulphur

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• 作者：Carlo Giorgio Visconti ; Luca Lietti ; Enrico Tronconi ; Pio Forzatti ; Roberto Zennaro ; Stefano Rossini
• 关键词：Fischer– ; Tropsch synthesis ; Catalyst deactivation ; Sulphur poisoning ; Kinetics ; Catalyst selectivity ; Cobalt ; Mathematical modeling ; CO conversion ; Product distribution
• 刊名：Catalysis Today
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：15 September 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：154
• 期：3-4
• 页码：202-209
• 全文大小：419 K

文摘

The effect of sulphur poisoning on the activity and selectivity in the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis of a Co/γ-Al₂O₃ catalyst, investigated in a previous work under conditions relevant to industrial operation, has been described in this work by means of a complete kinetic model, able to predict at the same time the CO conversion and the product distribution (paraffins and olefins from C₁ to C₅₀) on the basis of the process conditions and the amount of sulphur on the catalyst. To reach this goal, a mechanistic kinetic model, developed in a previous work for an unpoisoned catalyst, has been modified introducing the dependence on sulphur of the total number of catalytic active sites (to describe the progressive decrease of the catalyst activity with increasing sulphur loading on the catalyst), of the rate of the chain growth step (to describe the decrease of the selectivity to heavy products observed with sulphur-poisoned catalysts), and of the rates of paraffins and olefins formation from the growing adsorbed intermediate (to describe the variation of the olefin/paraffin ratio in the reaction products collected with the poisoned catalysts).