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Article: Fast work from biofuel catalysts.(Fischer-Tropsch)
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- May 26, 2008
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Catalysts for long-serving Fischer-Tropsch reactions are about to get smaller, more efficient and less expensive. New catalysts, developed by researchers at UK-based Oxford, catalysts are capable of increasing yields more than 10-fold compared with existing catalysts, at temperatures 30[degrees]C lower and with more than twice the throughput, says business development director Derek Atkinson. Not only that but they are able to do so either in the absence, or using substantially less, of the expensive precious metal promoters (see Table) typically needed to carry out these important reactions.
Fischer Tropsch reactions are important ...