Carbon-based catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an essential approach to convert coal, biomass, and shale gas into fuels and chemicals, such as lower olefins, gasoline, diesel, and so on. In recent years, there has been increasing motivation to deploy FTS at commercial scales which has been boosting the discover...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 2337 - 2366 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Royal Society of Chemistry
01.03.2021
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| Summary: | Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an essential approach to convert coal, biomass, and shale gas into fuels and chemicals, such as lower olefins, gasoline, diesel, and so on. In recent years, there has been increasing motivation to deploy FTS at commercial scales which has been boosting the discovery of high performance catalysts. In particular, the importance of support in modulating the activity of metals has been recognized and carbonaceous materials have attracted attention as supports for FTS. In this review, we summarised the substantial progress in the preparation of carbon-based catalysts for FTS by applying activated carbon (AC), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon nanofibers (CNFs), carbon spheres (CSs), and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) derived carbonaceous materials as supports. A general assessment of carbon-based catalysts for FTS, concerning the support and metal properties, activity and products selectivity, and their interactions is systematically discussed. Finally, current challenges and future trends in the development of carbon-based catalysts for commercial utilization in FTS are proposed.
The substantial progress of application of carbon-based catalysts in FTS has been systematically summarized and discussed in this review article. |
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| Bibliography: | capture and catalyst development for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. 2 Yanping Chen received her PhD from Zhejiang University, China, in 2014. Now she is an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. She experienced two years of postdoctoral research focusing on iron-catalyzed Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in DICP and two years of postdoctoral research focusing on cobalt/ruthenium-catalyzed Fischer-Tropsch synthesis in Unite de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide UMR 8181 (UCCS, CNRS) in France. Now she works mainly on carbon-based metal catalysts for Fischer Tropsch synthesis. Jian Liu received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China, in 2008, and worked at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland (UQ) as a research fellow. After working at Curtin University as a senior lecturer from 2013 to 2017, he then joined DICP as a full professor and group leader of micro-nanoreactor and reaction engineering. He also held an adjunct Reader position in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey, UK. His research focuses on the design of micro-nanoreactors, porous carbon spheres, and industrialization of homogeneous catalysis in heterogeneous systems. His h-index is 58 (Web of Science). 10.1039/d0cs00905a Andrei Y. Khodakov obtained his PhD degree in 1991 from Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1992-1999, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in academic and industrial laboratories in France, UK and USA. From 1999, he is a researcher of the National Centre for Scientific Research in France. Since 2017, he is a CNRS Senior Research Director in the UCCS-CNRS Laboratory in the University of Lille and Centrale Lille Institute. One of the major research topics addresses synthesis of fuels and chemicals from syngas via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI Jiatong Wei received her bachelor's degree from Shenyang Normal University in 2018. She is now a joint master's student under the supervision of Prof. Jian Liu at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of nanoreactor for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Melis S. Duyar is Lecturer of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Surrey. She obtained her MS (2013) and PhD (2015) from Columbia University and conducted post-doctoral research (2015-2017) at Stanford University. Prior to her academic appointment at the University of Surrey, Dr Duyar worked at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as Associate Staff Scientist and was also Lecturer of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (2017-2019). Her research interests include CO Vitaly V. Ordomsky received his MSc (2006) and PhD (2009) degree from Moscow State University in the field of zeolite catalysis. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University in the Netherlands, working on biomass conversion. Afterwards, he received a permanent position as a researcher in 2013 at the CNRS (France) in the Energy group of Lille University working in C1 chemistry mainly focusing in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. From 2016 to 2019 he was CNRS researcher in E2P2L laboratory in Shanghai. His main research field is development of new nano-materials for sustainable catalysis. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 ObjectType-Review-3 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d0cs00905a |