Epoxy compounds usually have stronger nucleophilic ability, because the alkyl group on the oxygen atom makes the bond angle smaller, which makes the lone pair of electrons react more dissimilarly with the electron-deficient system. Compound: Ruthenium(III) chloride xhydrate, is researched, Molecular Cl3H2ORu, CAS is 14898-67-0, about Fischer-Tropsch studies in a 3D-printed stainless steel microchannel microreactor coated with cobalt-based bimetallic-MCM-41 catalysts.Quality Control of Ruthenium(III) chloride xhydrate.
Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis was carried out using 3D-printed stainless steel (SS) microreactors, containing channels of dimensions 500μm x 500μm x2.7 cm, to study the effect of Fe, Ru, and Ni on Co-MCM-41 catalyst. The mono and bimetallic cobalt-based catalysts: 15% Co-MCM-41, 10%Co5% Ru MCM-41, 10%Co 5%Ni MCM-41, and 10%Co 5%Fe MCM-41 were synthesized using one-pot hydrothermal method and characterized by SEM-energy-dispersive x-ray anal., TEM, TPR, FTIR, XPS, and low and wide angle x-ray diffraction techniques. All the catalysts exhibited high surface area without the loss of ordered mesoporous structure as confirmed by large BET surface areas (400- 1000 m2/g) and low angle x-ray diffraction data. The metal nanoparticles were in the range of 35-50 nm and well dispersed in a hexagonal matrix of MCM-41. TPR data indicate that all other metal oxides except that of cobalt can be reduced with H2 below 600°. Cobalt is present most likely as cobalt silicates that can only be reduced with H2 at a temperature over 650°. The microchannels of SS reactor were uniformly coated by dip coating a slurry of the catalyst with polyvinyl alc. (PVA). The catalytic performance for FT synthesis was carried out in the SS microreactor at atm. pressure at of 180-300° with H2/CO molar ratio of 3. Incorporation of the second metal in the Co-MCM-41 framework and the operating temperature had a significant effect on CO conversion and selectivity towards C1-C4 alkanes in FT synthesis. While the highest CO conversion of 74% was obtained for CoFe-MCM-41 at 240°, the highest selectivity towards butane (11%) and propane (39%) was observed for CoRu-MCM-41 at 240° and CoFe-MCM-41 at 210°, resp. The rate of deactivation of the catalysts -followed the order: CoRu-MCM-41> CoNi-MCM-41> Co-MCM-41> CoFe-MCM-41, indicating that CoFe-MCM-41 is the most suitable catalyst for F-T synthesis in terms of long term stability.
Different reactions of this compound(Ruthenium(III) chloride xhydrate)Quality Control of Ruthenium(III) chloride xhydrate require different conditions, so the reaction conditions are very important.
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Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”