Manufacture of highly loaded silica-supported cobalt Fischer-Tropsch catalysts from a metal organic framework
Xiaohui Sun (TU Delft - ChemE/Catalysis Engineering)
A.I. Olivos Suarez (TU Delft - ChemE/Catalysis Engineering)
Mark J. Meijerink (Universiteit Utrecht)
T. W. Van Deelen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Samy Ould-Chikh (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
Jovana Zečević (Universiteit Utrecht)
K.M. de Jong (TU Delft - Information Management)
F. Kapteijn (TU Delft - ChemE/Catalysis Engineering)
Jorge Gascon (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, TU Delft - ChemE/Catalysis Engineering)
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Abstract
The development of synthetic protocols for the preparation of highly loaded metal nanoparticle-supported catalysts has received a great deal of attention over the last few decades. Independently controlling metal loading, nanoparticle size, distribution, and accessibility has proven challenging because of the clear interdependence between these crucial performance parameters. Here we present a stepwise methodology that, making use of a cobalt-containing metal organic framework as hard template (ZIF-67), allows addressing this long-standing challenge. Condensation of silica in the Co-metal organic framework pore space followed by pyrolysis and subsequent calcination of these composites renders highly loaded cobalt nanocomposites (~ 50 wt.% Co), with cobalt oxide reducibility in the order of 80% and a good particle dispersion, that exhibit high activity, C5 + selectivity and stability in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.