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Rate and selectivity hysteresis during the carbon monoxide hydrogenation over promoted Co/MnOx catalysts

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  • Yizhi Xiang

    (Washington State University
    Mississippi State University)

  • Libor Kovarik

    (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

  • Norbert Kruse

    (Washington State University
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

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While cobalt-based catalysts have been used in industrial Fischer-Tropsch synthesis for decades, little is known about how the dynamics of the Co-Co2C phase transformation drive their performance. Here we report on the occurrence of hysteresis effects in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction over potassium promoted Co/MnOx catalyst. Both the reaction rate and the selectivity to chain-lengthened paraffins and terminally functionalized products (aldehydes, alcohols, olefins) show bistability when varying the hydrogen/carbon monoxide partial pressures back and forth from overall reducing to carbidizing conditions. While the carbon monoxide conversion and the selectivity to functionalized products follow clockwise hysteresis, the selectivity to paraffins shows counter-clockwise behavior. In situ X-ray diffraction demonstrates the activity/selectivity bistability to be driven by a Co-Co2C phase transformation. The conclusions are supported by High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy which identifies the Co-Co2C transformation, Mn5O8 layered topologies at low H2/CO partial pressure ratios, and MnO at high such ratios.

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  • Yizhi Xiang & Libor Kovarik & Norbert Kruse, 2019. "Rate and selectivity hysteresis during the carbon monoxide hydrogenation over promoted Co/MnOx catalysts," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-11836-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11836-z
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