US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Development of Nanoparticle Catalysts Supported on Graphene for High Activity and Selectivity Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis of Liquid Fuels

美埃合作研究：开发石墨烯负载的纳米颗粒催化剂，用于高活性和选择性费托合成液体燃料

• 批准号: 1445489
• 负责人: Mohamed Samy El-Shall
• 金额: $ 9.87万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Egypt; Cooperative; Research; Development

This project supports a cooperative research effort by Dr. M. Samy El-Shall of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and Ahmed Abdel-Hamid of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology in Alexandria, Egypt. They plan to study the development of nanoparticle catalysts supported on graphene for high activity and selectivity in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) of liquid fuels. The project aims to develop an innovative approach to the design and synthesize a new class of efficient and selective FTS catalysts supported on graphene nanosheets. This research effort has the potential to develop a new family of highly active and selective graphene-supported, nanomaterial catalysts for the production of efficient and clean-burning liquid fuels. The research will develop new concepts and processes that will provide a platform for a rational catalyst design and optimized catalyst performance for the synthesis of liquid fuels and a variety of useful organic compounds. The project is expected to enhance the scientific knowledge of the FTS process and other related fields, and it may lead to new exciting technologies that could transform the new graphene-supported catalysts into a practical reality to increase energy supply and reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions at the same time. Successful results will likely initiate new efforts involving the industrial sectors in the United States and in Egypt for clean and sustainable energy production and conversion efficiency. Therefore, this cooperative research may lead to economic development in both countries. In addition, the project will train junior scientists and students in the multi-disciplinary cross-cutting research areas of catalysis, nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, surface science, industrial chemistry and energy conversion. This project will use nanocatalysts to promote the efficient and selective conversion of gas phase products derived from biomass into clean burning liquid fuels (C8-C18 n-alkanes). The key innovation in this proposal is the combination of established synthesis methods for transition metal nanocatalysts that control size and shape with the large surface area, unique electronic and defect-engineered properties of graphene. The goal is to develop a novel nanosheet catalyst support that leads to a new family of highly active and selective FT catalysts for the production of liquid fuels. With this new approach, catalyst-support interaction will be tailored to produce highly efficient, selective and recyclable FTS catalysts for the synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons which can be used as liquid fuels as well as oxygenated hydrocarbons which can be used for the production of valuable chemicals for a variety of industrial applications. The efforts will greatly extend the capabilities of the proposed methods and will develop a new multidisciplinary area of research focused on catalysis on graphene nanosheets. This project is funded through the US-Egypt Joint Science and Technology Fund Program. Support for the U.S. side of these cooperative projects is provided to the National Science Foundation by the U.S. Department of State. The Egyptian Government provides support for the Egyptian side of the collaboration. Egyptian side.

该项目支持弗吉尼亚州里士满弗吉尼亚联邦大学的 M. Samy El-Shall 博士和埃及亚历山大的埃及-日本科技大学的 Ahmed Abdel-Hamid 的合作研究工作。他们计划研究开发石墨烯负载的纳米颗粒催化剂，以在液体燃料的费托合成（FTS）中实现高活性和选择性。该项目旨在开发一种创新方法来设计和合成新型高效、选择性的石墨烯纳米片支撑的费托合成催化剂。这项研究工作有可能开发出一系列新的高活性和选择性石墨烯支撑的纳米材料催化剂，用于生产高效、清洁燃烧的液体燃料。该研究将开发新的概念和工艺，为合成液体燃料和各种有用的有机化合物的合理催化剂设计和优化催化剂性能提供平台。该项目预计将增强 FTS 过程和其他相关领域的科学知识，并可能带来令人兴奋的新技术，将新型石墨烯支持的催化剂转化为现实，以增加能源供应并减少全球温室气体排放。同时。成功的结果可能会引发美国和埃及工业部门为清洁和可持续能源生产和转换效率而做出的新努力。因此，这种合作研究可能会带动两国经济的发展。此外，该项目还将培训催化、纳米材料合成和表征、表面科学、工业化学和能源转换等多学科交叉研究领域的初级科学家和学生。该项目将利用纳米催化剂促进生物质气相产物高效、选择性地转化为清洁燃烧的液体燃料（C8-C18正烷烃）。该提案的关键创新在于将现有的过渡金属纳米催化剂合成方法与石墨烯的大表面积、独特的电子和缺陷工程特性控制尺寸和形状相结合。目标是开发一种新型纳米片催化剂载体，从而产生一系列新的高活性和选择性费托催化剂，用于生产液体燃料。通过这种新方法，催化剂-载体相互作用将被定制，以生产高效、选择性和可回收的 FTS 催化剂，用于合成可用作液体燃料的长链烃以及可用于生产适用于各种工业应用的有价值的化学品。这些努力将极大地扩展所提出方法的能力，并将开发一个新的多学科研究领域，重点关注石墨烯纳米片的催化。该项目由美国-埃及联合科学技术基金计划资助。美国国务院向美国国家科学基金会提供对这些合作项目美方的支持。埃及政府为埃方合作提供支持。 埃及这边。