{"id":155344,"date":"2025-10-31T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155344\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:32:10","slug":"chinese-researchers-figure-out-new-near-zero-carbon-olefin-production-route-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/155344\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers figure out new near zero-carbon olefin production route-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — A group of Chinese researchers has developed a simple yet highly effective catalytic tuning strategy that almost completely eliminates carbon dioxide by-products during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS), offering a new route to green syngas conversion and low-carbon chemical manufacturing.<\/p>\n

This achievement was published on Thursday in the journal Science.<\/p>\n

FTS converts the syngas of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels or high-value chemicals such as olefins. It serves as the pivotal bridge for turning coal, natural gas, biomass and other carbon resources into fuels and value-added chemicals.<\/p>\n

Thanks to their low cost and high yield to fuels, iron-based catalysts now account for more than two-thirds of global FTS capacity.<\/p>\n

However, a water-gas shift reaction proceeds almost unavoidably during the iron-catalyzed FTS process — generating large amounts of carbon dioxide and squandering valuable carbon.<\/p>\n

By integrating the syngas with just a bit of methyl bromide at a concentration of five ppm — the researchers gained surgical control over the reaction pathways on the iron surface.<\/p>\n

Experimental data show that such ppm-level methyl bromide switches off the carbon dioxide-forming route, cutting its selectivity from around 30 percent to below 1 percent — and achieving virtually zero emissions.<\/p>\n

FTS has long been a cornerstone of China’s coal-to-liquid and syngas chemical industries, yet the seemingly unavoidable formation of carbon dioxide by-products remained one of the biggest roadblocks to its green upgrade, said Ma Ding, a professor of Peking University.<\/p>\n

“Our study delivers a simple yet effective technical fix that enables green and low-carbon production of olefins or liquid fuels,” Ma added.<\/p>\n

Paired with renewable hydrogen and low-carbon dioxide coal-gasification, the study is expected to open a fresh pathway in decarbonizing coal-to-liquid or coal-to-chemicals processes.\u00a0 \u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — A group of Chinese researchers has developed a simple yet highly effective catalytic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[381,18,19,17,90803,82,90802],"class_list":{"0":"post-155344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-olefins","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-zero-carbon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115469034990832859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}