Title: Use of multi-metallic bifunctional catalysts for the conversion of coal derived synthesis gas to methanol. Progress report No. 3, June--August 1978
Abstract: Several metal carbonyls have been found to produce methanol from CO/H/sub 2/ under conditions similar to those reported earlier for Mo(CO)/sub 6/. Co/sub 2/(CO)/sub 8/ was found to produce ethanol as well as methanol under these conditions. The intermetallic compound FeTi was found to catalyze the reduction of CO and CO/sub 2/ to methane. The appearance of CH/sub 4/ was linear with time for both CO and CO/sub 2/. CO/sub 2/ reduction was faster than that observed for CO.