TY - JOUR A1 - Girod, Kai A1 - Breitkreuz, Klaas A1 - Henning, Torsten A1 - Lohmann, Heiko A1 - Kaluza, Stefan A1 - Schluter, Stefan T1 - Steel Mills as Syngas Source for Methanol Synthesis: Simulation and Practical Performance Investigations JF - Chemical Engineering Transactions N2 - In the present contribution, the utilization of steel-mill gases for an industrial methanol synthesis process is described. The focus of this work is on the influence of syngas compositions derived from steel-mill gases on an industrial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst. Elevated CO2 and H2O concentrations seem to have an irreversible impact on the activity of the catalyst. In order to obtain realistic gas composition for the catalyst tests, a process simulation of the methanol synthesis was conducted. The calculated gas compositions at the reactor inlet were applied in a practical test in order to evaluate the catalyst stability under steel mill gas conditions. No noticeable deactivation was observed. KW - DOAJ Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-88-95608-71-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1974080 SN - 2283-9216 VL - 74 SP - 475 EP - 480 PB - AIDIC ER -