The ultimate goal of this paper is the assessment of the yield of liquid hydrocarbons formed in the low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over a representative cobalt-based catalyst at relevant process conditions. To achieve this goal, a set of steady-state Fischer-Tropsch runs has been carried out in a lab-scale reactor loaded with a 20 wt.% Co/Al2O3 catalyst, investigating the effects of the main process conditions (temperature, H 2/CO inlet ratio, content of inert gas in the feed, syngas space velocity) on the reactants conversion and on the C1-C50 product selectivity. Then, a CO conversion kinetic model and a product distribution model have been developed and have been jointly adopted to describe the product yields in the reactor as a function of the process conditions. Product yields have been finally used as input for an isothermal and isobaric non-ideal vapor-liquid equilibrium calculation. It has been found that, at the typical low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process conditions, more than 95 mol.% of the C1-C30 hydrocarbons, that in general represent more than 99 mol.% of the hydrocarbon products, are in the vapor phase.
Calculating the products yield and their vapour-liquid equilibrium in the low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
VISCONTI, CARLO GIORGIO;MASCELLARO, MARINA
2013-01-01
Abstract
The ultimate goal of this paper is the assessment of the yield of liquid hydrocarbons formed in the low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over a representative cobalt-based catalyst at relevant process conditions. To achieve this goal, a set of steady-state Fischer-Tropsch runs has been carried out in a lab-scale reactor loaded with a 20 wt.% Co/Al2O3 catalyst, investigating the effects of the main process conditions (temperature, H 2/CO inlet ratio, content of inert gas in the feed, syngas space velocity) on the reactants conversion and on the C1-C50 product selectivity. Then, a CO conversion kinetic model and a product distribution model have been developed and have been jointly adopted to describe the product yields in the reactor as a function of the process conditions. Product yields have been finally used as input for an isothermal and isobaric non-ideal vapor-liquid equilibrium calculation. It has been found that, at the typical low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process conditions, more than 95 mol.% of the C1-C30 hydrocarbons, that in general represent more than 99 mol.% of the hydrocarbon products, are in the vapor phase.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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