Investigation of the Partitioning of Dissociated H2 and D2 on Activated Ruthenium Catalysts

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is a process that uses a heterogeneous catalyst to synthesize a wide range of hydrocarbons. Past studies probing the mechanism revealed that the rate-determining step (RDS) centers on chain termination. These mechanistic reports investigated chain termination isotopically by switching from H2 to D2 during FTS at realistic conditions. If a variation results in the production

13.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................244 13.2 Experimental ................................................................................................245