ACMC-Co

The ACMC-Co catalyst is an activated carbon/ceramic monolith based support impregnated with Co. The ACMC-Co monolith catalyst can be used instead of Co/ carbon catalysts for hydrogenation, dehydrogenation and other reductive chemistries for fixed bed operations. The advantages may include higher activity, selectivity and lifetime due to reduced mass transfer resistance and lower attrition. The Co loading and promoters are chosen based on the application, One general application of the ACMC-Co catalysts is to convert current batch catalyst processes requiring catalyst separations to continuous processes and which don’t require catalyst separation. A second motivator can be the need to run chemistry at higher pressure, often limited in stirred autoclave reactors. Fixed bed catalysts allow the use of low diameter reactor tubes in multi-tubular reactors where higher pressure and exceptional heat removal are A third advantage for using Co is the lower cost compared to platinum group metals (PGM). Applied Catalysts can provide catalyst samples for your testing, or can run your chemistry or surrogate chemistry in our lab and show tube reactors.