Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Kym B Arcuri

Charles H Mauldin

William C Behrmann

Stephen M Davis

Dave H Shaw

A method for hydrocarbon synthesis reactions from carbon monoxide and hydrogen using a catalyst pellet which includes a solid core and a coated layer of porous support impregnated with a catalyst which optimizes the CO conversion.

Method for hydrocarbon synthesis reactions

A supported particulate cobalt catalyst is formed by dispersing cobalt, alone or with a metal promoter, particularly rhenium, as a thin catalytically active film upon a particulate support, especially a silica or titania support. This catalyst can be used to convert an admixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a distillate fuel constituted principally of an admixture of linear paraffins and olefins, particularly a C distillate, at high productivity, with low methane selectivity. A process is also disclosed for the preparation of these catalysts.

Surface supported cobalt catalysts, process utilizing these catalysts for the preparation of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas and process for the preparation of said catalysts

A supported particulate cobalt catalyst is formed by dispersing cobalt, alone or with a metal promoter, particularly rhenium, as a thin catalytically active film upon a particulate support, especially a silica or titania support. This catalyst can be used to convert an admixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a distillate fuel constituted principally of an admixture of linear paraffins and olefins, particularly a C.sub.10+ distillate, at high productivity, with low methane selectivity. A process is also disclosed for the preparation of these catalysts.

Surface supported cobalt catalysts, process utilizing these catalysts

A supported particulate cobalt catalyst is formed by dispersing cobalt, alone or with a metal promoter, particularly rhenium, as a thin catalytically active film upon a particulate titania or titania-containing support, especially one wherein the rutile:anatase ratio of the support is at least about 3:2. This catalyst can be used to convert an admixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a distillate fuel constituted principally of an admixture of linear paraffins and olefins, particularly a C.sub.10 + distillate, at high productivity, with low methane selectivity. A process is also disclosed for the preparation of these catalysts.

Cobalt-titania catalysts, process utilizing these catalysts for the

A supported particulate cobalt catalyst is formed by dispersing cobalt, alone or with a metal promoter, particularly rhenium, as a thin catalytically active film upon a particulate titania or titania-containing support, especially one wherein the rutile:anatase ratio of the support is at least about 3:2. This catalyst can be used to convert an admixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a distillate fuel constituted principally of an admixture of linear paraffins and olefins, particularly a C.sub.10+ distillate, at high productivity, with low methane selectivity. A process is also disclosed for the preparation of these catalysts.

A zirconium, hafnium, cerium or uranium promoted cobalt catalyst and process for the conversion of methanol or synthesis gas to hydrocarbons. Methanol is contacted, preferably with added hydrogen, over said catalyst, or synthesis gas is contacted over said catalyst to produce, at reaction conditions, an admixture of C.sub.10 + linear paraffins and olefins. These hydrocarbons can be further refined to high quality middle distillate fuels, and other valuable products such as mogas, diesel fuel, and jet fuel, particularly premium middle distillate fuels of carbon number ranging to about C.sub.20.

Cobalt catalysts, and use thereof for the conversion of methanol and for

Cobalt catalysts for the conversion of methanol and for Fischer-Tropsch

A process for the start-up of a reactor which utilizes a feed comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide for the synthesis of hydrocarbons. The feed is contacted with a bed of hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst in which perturbations of the temperature profile across the bed can develop, and which, at start-up is particularly acute. In practicing the process the feed is introduced into the reactor at a rate ranging up to about 100 percent of the total flow rate at which the feed is introduced to the reactor at line-out. Hydrogen is introduced into the reactor as a portion of said feed at a molar feed rate generally well below the feed rate in which the hydrogen is employed in the reactor at line-out, the molar ratio of hydrogen:carbon monoxide of the feed generally not exceeding about 90 percent, preferably 75 percent, of the molar ratio of hydrogen:carbon monoxide at line-out. While maintaining the low molar ratio of hydrogen:carbon monoxide in the feed, the pressure and temperature of the reactor is raised to levels of pressure and temperature, respectively, employed at line-out. Thereafter the molar ratio of hydrogen:carbon monoxide is raised until the molar ratio of hydrogen:carbon monoxide is essentially that employed at line-out. The thermal stability of the operation is greatly improved, and by conducting start-up in this manner the conventional time period required for start-up can be drastically reduced, e.g., from an 8 to 18 day start-up period for a small reactor to as little as about 20 hours, or less.

Process for the start-up of a Fischer-Tropsch reactor

A novel ruthenium catalyst, notably a ruthenium-titania catalyst, is disclosed to which is added sufficient rhenium to obtain, at corresponding process conditions, improved activity maintenance in the production of hydrocarbons via carbon monoxide-hydrogen synthesis reactions vis-a-vis a catalyst composition otherwise similar except that it does not contain rhenium. High quality middle distillate fuels, characterized generally as admixtures of linear paraffins and olefins, are formed in a process wherein a feed mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen are contacted at reaction conditions over such catalyst.

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