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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2001
Peizheng Zhou, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Abstract
Fine iron-based catalyst particles from. Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis processes are effectively separated from catalyst/liquid/wax slurry by contacting and/or mixing the slurry with a coalescence enhancing treating solution to facilitate gravity separation and settling of such catalyst, and thereby yield a substantially clean hydrocarbon liquid/wax product. The treating solution includes a surface tension reducing agent, an agglutinating agent, and a coalescing agent each in selected proportions in aqueous solution. Useful mixing and settling conditions are 10-250° C. temperature, 0-500 psig pressure and treating solution to slurry volume ratio of 0.5-5:1, with the settling time for at least about 90% and preferably substantially all of the catalyst fines after the mixing step being less than about 15 minutes. The treating solution can be desirably recovered and reused in the F-T synthesis process, and the recovered catalyst either recycled or disposed as desired.