Insights into Hägg Iron-Carbide-Catalyzed Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis: Suppression of CH4 Formation and Enhancement of C–C Coupling on χ-Fe5C2 (510)
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Abstract
Probing the product selectivity of Fischer–Tropsch catalysts is of prime scientific and industrial importance—with the aim to upgrade products and meet various end-use applications. In this work, the mechanisms for CH4 formation and C1–C1 coupling on a thermodynamically stable, terraced-like χ-Fe5C2 (510) surface were studied by DFT calculations. It was found that this surface exhibits high effective barriers of CH4 formation for the three cases (i.e., 3.66, 2.81, and 2.39 eV), indicating the unfavorable occurrence of CH4 formation under FTS conditions. The C + CH and CH + CH are the most likely coupling pathways, which follow the carbide mechanism. Subsequently, the effective barrier difference between CH4 formation and C1–C1 coupling was used as a descriptor to quantify FTS selectivity. A comparison of the selectivity between this surface and the reported FTS catalysts’ surfaces was discussed in detail. More interestingly, this surface shows unexpectedly high C2+ selectivity. This indicates that manipulating the crystal facet of χ-Fe5C2 catalyst can effectively tune the FTS selectivity, which will open a new avenue for highly selective Fe-based FTS catalysts.
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