Design and modification of zeolite capsule catalyst, a confined reaction field, and its application in one-step isoparaffin synthesis from syngas

Four kinds of zeolite capsule catalyst with different crystallization conditions were prepared and utilized for the middle isoparaffin direct synthesis via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) reaction. Characterization results exhibited that these capsule catalysts had a compact, integral H-ZSM-5 shell. In FTS reactions on these zeolite capsule catalysts, hydrocarbons of C11+ were totally suppressed, accompanied by a sharp anti-Anderson-Schultz-Flory (ASF) law product distribution. The selectivity of light isoparaffin was improved obviously, but with the increase of the olefin's selectivity. Two-stage isoparaffin synthesis reaction, using the combination of zeolite capsule catalyst with hydrogenation catalyst of Pd/SiO2 in a single reactor as dual-bed catalyst, was also conducted for converting the residual olefins produced by the single zeolite capsule catalyst. Dependent on the palladium role of hydrogenation and hydrogen spillover, almost all the olefins effused from the first stage of zeolite capsule catalyst were hydrogenated, mostly converted to isoparaffin. The selectivity of isoparaffin in the final products was increased markedly as expected.