Iron supported on beaded carbon black as active, selective and stable catalyst for direct CO2 to olefin conversion

The Fischer-Tropsch-to-Olefins process allows to convert waste stemming CO2 with green hydrogen to olefins. Iron can catalyse both core reactions: 1) reverse-water-gas-shift as well as 2) Fischer-Tropsch. Carbon supported catalysts were reported to be highly attractive in this context, but until now mainly non technically applicable research carbons like nanotubes or ordered mesoporous carbons were studied and long term stability studies are missing. Here, beaded carbon blacks, were studied as available and inexpensive support materials for Fe catalysts in CO2-based FTO. The most promising support yielded selectivities towards olefins of almost 40% and showed for 170 h high stability.