Characterization of carbon nanostructures deposited on fibrillar Fe-Zr catalysts during Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis with biomass gasification syngas.

Abstract

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an alternative way to obtain fuels and petrochemical products with low greenhouse gases emissions when biomass is used as syngas source. However, gasification of lignocellulosic biomass usually results in syngas with low H2/CO ratio, and the direct use of this syngas without increasing the H2 amount of carbon nanostructures obtained on top of iron-zirconia electrospun nanofibers when used as catalysts during the FTS reactions at different operation conditions