Studies on product distribution of alkali promoted iron catalyst in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis

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The dependencies of hydrocarbon product distributions of alkali promoted iron catalyst in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis have been studied. The concept of two superimposed Anderson-Schulz-Flory distributions has been applied for the representation of the effects of Mg, La and Ca promoters on product distributions. The FTS performance of the catalysts was tested in a fixed bed reactor under the conditions 563 K, 1.7 MPa, H 2/CO = 1 and space velocities 4.86 and 13.28 nl·h −1·g Fe −1. The results indicate that appropriate amounts of these promoters enhance the break in ASF distributions in the order Ca > Mg > La because of the rising of the catalyst surface basicity.