O-Th-Fre-2 Effect of Mo Loading and Metal-Support Interactions on Mixed MgAl Oxide Supported Potassium Promoted Molybdenum Sulfide as a Selective Catalyst for Higher Alcohol Synthesis from Syngas

Thursday, June 6, 2013: 8:20 AM
French (Galt House Hotel)
Michael R. Morrill1, N. Tien Thao1,2, Heng Shou3, David G. Barton4, Daniela Ferrari4, Robert J. Davis3, Pradeep K. Agrawal1 and Christopher W. Jones1, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, (2)Vietnam National University - Hanoi, Vietnam, (3)University of Virginia, USA, (4)Dow Chemical Company, USA.
MoS2/K2CO3 is supported on MgAl mixed metal oxides (MMO) to produce higher alcohols from syngas.  Catalysts with high MMO:Mo ratios are uncharacteristically selective for higher alcohols at moderate alkali loadings. These effects are not be attributed reactions on MMO alone but rather to specific reaction on Mo/K or Mo/K/MMO interfacial domains.

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