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Effects of pretreatment on iron-based catalysts for forming light olefins via Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

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The effects of ethylene glycol modified co-precipitation were applied to develop a catalyst with higher activity and selectivity of light olefins in the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. The catalysts prepared by an ethylene glycol (EG) modified co-precipitation realized smaller and homogeneously distributed catalyst particles as 15–25 nm, which was two times smaller than that of the catalyst prepared from conventional co-precipitation. The Fe/Mn-EG catalyst has higher activity and enhanced selectivity to light olefins, as well as the doubled olefin to paraffin ratio (C =2 –C =4 /C 02 –C 04 ), comparing to un-pretreated catalyst. Furthermore, the addition of magnesium promoter to the Fe/Mn-EG catalyst inhibits the chain growth ability, and enhances the formation of light olefins (C =2 –C =4 ), realizing the high selectivity of light olefins as 50.1 %. The properties of catalyst structure, active phase, reduction and carburization of obtained catalysts were characterized by N2 physisorption, XRD, SEM, XPS, TPR and DRIFTS measurements.

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Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91334206 and 51174259), Ministry of Education (NCET-13-0653), National “863” program of China (Nos. 2012AA051001 and 2013AA031702) is greatly appreciated.

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  2. Research Centre of the Ministry of Education for High Gravity Engineering and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China

    Jian-Feng Chen & Yi Zhang

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Liu, Y., Chen, JF. & Zhang, Y. Effects of pretreatment on iron-based catalysts for forming light olefins via Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. Reac Kinet Mech Cat 114, 433–449 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-014-0821-0

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