Title :
Microreactors for synthetic diesel production to optimize nanostructured cobalt catalyst
Author :
Brown, Joshua ; McDonald, John ; Wilson, Chester
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston, LA, USA
Abstract :
This paper reports on a new borosilicate microreactor, utilizing a high-efficiency Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst for the production of synthetic diesel samples. The microreactor has a novel on chip heater in a gas mixing region, and several independent channels where nanocatalysts of differing structures can be deposited for parallel testing. One new nanostructured catalyst is fabricated under a specialized electrodeposition environment that results in high aspect ratio cobalt nanowires which have a very high surface area and attrition resistance due to high crystallinity. The samples are collected and are analyzed for their specific diesel fractions.
Keywords :
catalysts; cobalt; electrodeposition; fuel processing industries; microreactors; nanowires; petroleum; borosilicate microreactor; chip heater; electrodeposition; gas mixing region; high aspect ratio cobalt nanowires; high-efficiency Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst; nanocatalysts; nanostructured cobalt catalyst; parallel testing; synthetic diesel production; Cobalt; Ethanol; Fuels; Hydrogen; Nanowires; Petroleum; Production; Surface resistance; Temperature; Vehicles; Fischer-Tropsch; cobalt; nanowire;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, 2009. TRANSDUCERS 2009. International
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4190-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4193-8
DOI :
10.1109/SENSOR.2009.5285393
