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Effects of Sulphur on a Co/Mn-based Catalyst for Fischer–Tropsch Reactions

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The long term effect of up to 10 ppm H2S was studied for Fischer–Tropsch conversion of syngas by catalytic testing at 240 °C, 5 bar, H2/CO = 2.1 and GHSV = 2400 Nml/gcat h. Sulphur was dosed after ~ 300 or ~ 1000 h time on stream and the effect was monitored using on-line GC. The activity declined, and the effect correlated to the concentration of H2S in the feed. However, dosing after ~ 1000 h caused a stronger effect than dosing after ~ 300 h. The effects of sulphur are significant with respect to operational risks and mitigation but are substantially less severe than for a standard Co-based catalyst operated at 20 bar for wax production. The spent catalyst consisted of a mixture of cubic (Co, Mn)O, hexagonal Co, Co2C and sulphurous deposits; mainly MnSO4. It could not be concluded that sulphur had a direct effect on product selectivity, but it may have impacted water-gas-shift activity, and sudden changes in shift activity was found to correlate to changes in hydrocarbon selectivity.

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  1. SINTEF Industry, Postboks 4760, Sluppen, 7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Bjørn Christian Enger, John Walmsley, Ingeborg-Helene Svenum, Julian Richard Tolchard, Jia Yang, Rune Myrstad & Torbjørn Gjervan

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    Asad Ahmad Khan, Abdulkarim Mutairi-Al & Khalid Karim

  3. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK

    John Walmsley

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælands vei 4, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Jia Yang

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Enger, B.C., Walmsley, J., Svenum, IH. et al. Effects of Sulphur on a Co/Mn-based Catalyst for Fischer–Tropsch Reactions. Catal Lett 148, 2980–2991 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-018-2533-y

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