TY - JOUR
T1 - Generation of light hydrocarbons through Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
T2 - Identification of potentially dominant catalytic pathways via the graph-theoretic method and energetic analysis
AU - Lin, Yu Chuan
AU - Fan, L. T.
AU - Shafie, Shahram
AU - Bertók, Botond
AU - Friedler, Ferenc
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by National Science Council (Taiwan) under Project NSC-096-2917-I-564-114 and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund under Project F51227. Professor Scott M. Auerbach at Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst is gratefully appreciated for valuable discussion.
PY - 2009/6/16
Y1 - 2009/6/16
N2 - The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) for the production of widely distributed hydrocarbons through the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide (CO) has been intensively and extensively explored. This is attributable to its immense theoretical as well as practical importance. Naturally, such exploration would be greatly facilitated if the feasible or dominant catalytic pathways (mechanisms) of FTS can be determined. The stoichiometrically feasible and independent catalytic pathways (IPi's) of FTS have been exhaustively identified via the rigorous graph-theoretic method based on P-graphs (process graphs). The most extensive set of elementary reactions available, which numbers 26, has yielded 24 IPi's in less than 1 s on a PC. The plausibly dominant pathways have been selected from the stoichiometrically feasible pathways through the analysis of their activation energies. Naturally, the dominant pathway or pathways need ultimately be discriminated among these plausibly dominant pathways via various means, e.g., in situ spectroscopic measurements of intermediates.
AB - The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) for the production of widely distributed hydrocarbons through the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide (CO) has been intensively and extensively explored. This is attributable to its immense theoretical as well as practical importance. Naturally, such exploration would be greatly facilitated if the feasible or dominant catalytic pathways (mechanisms) of FTS can be determined. The stoichiometrically feasible and independent catalytic pathways (IPi's) of FTS have been exhaustively identified via the rigorous graph-theoretic method based on P-graphs (process graphs). The most extensive set of elementary reactions available, which numbers 26, has yielded 24 IPi's in less than 1 s on a PC. The plausibly dominant pathways have been selected from the stoichiometrically feasible pathways through the analysis of their activation energies. Naturally, the dominant pathway or pathways need ultimately be discriminated among these plausibly dominant pathways via various means, e.g., in situ spectroscopic measurements of intermediates.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.01.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:65049089494
VL - 33
SP - 1182
EP - 1186
JO - Computers and Chemical Engineering
JF - Computers and Chemical Engineering
SN - 0098-1354
IS - 6
ER -