Robert A Gormley

US Patent:

43405037, Jul 20, 1982

Filed:

Aug 15, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/178654

Inventors:

V. Udaya S. Rao - Monroeville PA
Robert J. Gormley - Pittsburgh PA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

International Classification:

B01J 2108
B01J 2378

US Classification:

252459

Abstract:

A catalyst and process for making same useful in the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide in which a silicalite support substantially free of aluminum is soaked in an aqueous solution of iron and potassium salts wherein the iron and potassium are present in concentrations such that the dried silicalite has iron present in the range of from about 5 to about 25 percent by weight and has potassium present in an amount not less than about 0. 2 percent by weight, and thereafter the silicalite is dried and combined with amorphous silica as a binder for pellets, the catalytic pellets are used to convert synthesis gas to C. sub. 2 -C. sub. 4 olefins.

US Patent:

46597433, Apr 21, 1987

Filed:

Oct 18, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/542558

Inventors:

V. Udaya S. Rao - Monroeville PA
Robert J. Gormley - Pittsburgh PA

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the United States
Department of Energy - Washington DC

International Classification:

C07C 104

US Classification:

518715

Abstract:

Synthesis gas containing CO and H. sub. 2 is converted to a high-octane hydrocarbon liquid in the gasoline boiling point range by bringing the gas into contact with a heterogeneous catalyst including, in physical mixture, a zeolite molecular sieve, cobalt at 6-20% by weight, and thoria at 0. 5-3. 9% by weight. The contacting occurs at a temperature of 250. degree. -300. degree. C. , and a pressure of 10-30 atmospheres. The conditions can be selected to form a major portion of the hydrocarbon product in the gasoline boiling range with a research octane of more than 80 and less than 10% by weight aromatics.