Journal
FUEL
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 1045-1051Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2013.10.014
Keywords
Microemulsion; Nanoparticles dispersion; Carbon nanotube; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; Functionalization
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- Research Council of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry
- Research and Development of the National Iranian Oil Company
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The influence of cobalt crystallite size on catalyst performance in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) has been investigated using functionalized carbon nanotube (CNT)-supported catalyst. The catalysts were synthesized by the core reverse micelle reactions with cobalt crystallites of various sizes. It has been shown that crystallite size is dependent to the water-to-surfactant ratio (3-10) used for the catalyst preparation. The catalysts were characterized by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method (BET), X-ray diffraction (XRD), H-2 chemisorption, temperature program reduction (TPR), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). According to TEM analysis, small cobalt crystallites size (3-8 nm) synthesized by microemulsion technique have a very narrow size distributions, and they were mostly confined inside the functionalized CNT. The deposition of cobalt nanoclusters synthesized by microemulsion technique on the functionalized CNT, shift the reduction peaks to a low temperature, indicating higher reducibility for uniform cobalt crystallites. The catalyst prepared with functionalized CNT using proposed microemulsion technique, increased the FTS rate from 0.64 to 0.78 g HC/g cat./h, C-5(+) selectivity increased 7.4% and CH4 selectivity decreased 44%, compared to that catalyst prepared on common CNT. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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