Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Morphology, Phase Transformation and Carbon-Layer Growth As a Function of Potassium Promoter Loading for a Precipitated Iron Catalyst

Pendyala, Venkat Ramana Rao

Monday, June 15, 2015: 4:00 PM

407 (Lawrence Convention Center)

Venkat Ramana Rao Pendyala¹, Uschi M. Graham¹, Gary Jacobs¹, Hussein H. Hamdeh² and Burtron H. Davis¹, (1)University of Kentucky, USA, (2)Wichita State University, USA.

To study the morphological and chemical transformations of the unpromoted and K-promoted iron catalysts during the carburization/Fischer-Tropsch processes in a CSTR using TEM, and Mössbauer spectroscopy, and to elucidate the reasons why the deactivation rate passes through a minimum with increasing K loading.

Extended Abstracts:

24th NACS Abstract Ramana.pdf (281.1KB) - Extended Abstract

O-M-407-13 Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Morphology, Phase Transformation and Carbon-Layer Growth As a Function of Potassium Promoter Loading for a Precipitated Iron Catalyst