FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS - C-14 TRACER STUDY OF ALKENE INCORPORATION

Pentenes, both 1-pentene and a mixture of cis-2-plus trans-2-pentene, are essentially inert toward hydrogenation, incorporation, positional, and perhaps cis-trans isomerization, during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a promoted iron catalyst under medium-pressure conditions. 1-Decene does undergo isomerization, hydrogenation, and incorporation, and ethene undergoes the latter two conversions. 1-Decene conversion is believed to be due primarily to hold up in the CSTR. Alkanes appear to be a primary product of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and not formed just by secondary reactions. © 1990, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.