In this article, we prepared a series of K-promoted double
metal
cyanide (DMC) catalysts consisting of iron with a late 3d transition
metal (Mn, Co, Cu, and Zn) using a single-step conventional precipitation
method and examined them for CO2 value addition to short-chain
olefins via modified Fischer–Tropsch route. Several ex situ/in
situ combined with temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) experiments
were carried out to identify the species in the catalysts and evaluate
the adsorption/desorption characteristics of the reduced catalysts.
The CO2 conversion for bimetallic catalysts increases in
the following order: Fe–Mn (R): 24.85% < Fe–Zn (R):
28.60 < Fe–Cu (R): 29.40% < Fe–Co (R): 39.10%
whereas selectivity of the short-chain olefins (C2–C4
=) in hydrocarbons decreases in the following order:
Fe–Mn (R): 56.1% > Fe–Cu (R): 55.4% > Fe–Zn
(R):
50.8% > Fe–Co (R): 44.3%, at 20 bar pressure, 320 °C
temperature,
and a gas hour space velocity (GHSV) of 3600 mL·gcat
–1·h–1. Remarkably, during
the optimization of the reaction conditions, short-chain olefins selectivity
over the Fe–Mn (R) catalyst unprecedently reached up to 63.8%
in hydrocarbons with 30.56% CO2 conversion. The TPD results
and reaction performance reveal that the Fe–Co (R) catalyst
has higher adsorption for weakly adsorbed CO2, H2, and CO, which results in higher CO2 conversion, lower
CO, and higher hydrocarbon selectivity with a lower O/P ratio. Contrarily,
the Fe–Mn (R) catalyst exhibits opposite reaction outcomes
to the Fe–Co (R) catalyst owing to its lower adsorption for
weakly adsorbed CO2, H2, and CO. These findings
shed light on how the conversion of reactant and product distribution
is affected by the adsorption/desorption characteristics of the catalysts
for the reactant and important intermediates.