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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages 7028-7031Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23394k
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A combined modelling study on the Fischer-Tropsch Mechanism on Ru(0001). The DFT results presented herein approve the idea that the carbide mechanism is not the main reaction path in the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons on Ru{0001}. The direct reaction of a CH(x)(s) species with a CO(s) species is kinetically and thermochemically preferred over CO dissociation and the hydrogenation of carbon monoxide can be seen as the initiation reaction of the hydrocarbon polymerisation process. Moreover, this study shows that CO dissociation is favoured over desorption on Ru{0001}, while on the analogue Co facet desorption is clearly favoured. This study therefore is an important further confirmation on new thinking in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The fundamental insight gained in these studies will be of paramount importance for engineers optimising the FT process. Optimisation will not only lower the cost of FT fuels but simultaneously lower energy consumption and emissions.
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