Oxygen Poisoning in Laboratory Testing of Iron-Based Ammonia Synthesis Catalysts and its Potential Sources

The influence of oxygen poisoning on a state-of-the-art multipromoted iron-based industrial catalyst for ammonia synthesis as well as the effectivity of different gas purification methods to prevent oxygen poisoning for experiments on laboratory scale were studied in detail. Additionally, the observed results were compared to a common oxygen poisoning test from literature, which on the one hand confirmed its usability in a wide range of conditions, but on the other hand also demonstrated the limitations of this test.