A hydrocarbon production system capable of efficiently producing hydrocarbon containing a high-calorie gas by securing hydrogen and carbon monoxide required for hydrocarbon synthesis using water and carbon dioxide as raw materials is obtained. The hydrocarbon production system includes an electrolytic reaction unit that converts water and carbon dioxide into hydrogen and carbon monoxide through an electrolytic reaction, a catalytic reaction unit that converts a product generated by the electrolytic reaction unit into hydrocarbon through a catalytic reaction, and branch paths and that branch a portion of an outlet component of the catalytic reaction unit.

Disclosed are catalyst compositions containing cobalt II cations (Co2+) on a support. In embodiments, the catalyst compositions are free of chromium and/or a precious metal. Also disclosed are methods of preparing such catalyst compositions and methods of using such catalyst compositions, for example, to dehydrogenate light alkane and/or light alkene gas.

The present disclosure relates to a multi-sandwich composite catalyst and a preparation method and application thereof. The present disclosure provides a preparation method of a multi-sandwich composite catalyst, comprises the following steps: sequentially depositing a first layer oxide, a first active metal, an oxide interlayer, a second active metal and a surface oxide on a template, and sequentially performing calcination and reduction, thereby obtaining a multi-sandwich composite catalyst; wherein the first active metal and the second active metal are different kinds of active metals. In the present disclosure, a multi-sandwich structure is formed by depositing the oxides and active metals alternately, so that the position and spacing distance of the active centers can be precisely controlled. The multi-sandwich composite catalyst prepared by the method provided described herein has a higher conversion than that of a catalyst without an interlayer when used for the catalytic reaction.

Methods of preparing unsaturated compounds or analogs through dehydrogenation of corresponding saturated compounds and/or hydrogenation of aromatic compounds are disclosed.

A catalyst, including: a transition metal; and an organic solvent. The transition metal is dispersed in the organic solvent in the form of monodisperse nanoparticles; the transition metal has a grain size of between 1 and 100 nm; and the catalyst has a specific surface area of 5 and 300 m.sup.2/g. The invention also provides a method for preparing a catalyst, including: 1) dissolving an organic salt of a transition metal in an organic solvent including a polyhydric alcohol, to yield a mixture; and 2) heating and stirring the mixture in the presence of air or inert gas, holding the mixture at the temperature of between 150 and 250° C. for between 30 and 240 min, to yield the catalyst.

Described herein are catalysts relating to liquid synthesis, methods of their preparation, and methods of their use. In an embodiment according to the present disclosure, a method of producing a catalyst for liquid synthesis comprises: providing a silica oxide support; pretreating the silica oxide support to remove air and moisture; impregnating the pretreated silica oxide support with cobalt from a cobalt source using a cobalt impregnation method; and calcinating the impregnated silica oxide support in an oven with a temperature ramping profile, wherein the calcinating comprises feeding air into the oven.

Disclosed are a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, a preparation method therefor and use thereof in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction. Wherein the catalyst comprises: an active component, being at least one selected from VIIIB transition metals; an optional auxiliary metal; and a nitride carrier having a high specific surface area. The catalyst is characterized in that the active metal is supported on the nitride carrier having the high specific surface, such that the active component in the catalyst is highly dispersed. The catalyst has a high hydrothermal stability, an excellent mechanical wear resistance, a high Fischer-Tropsch synthesis activity and an excellent high-temperature stability.

Provided is a nanostructure catalyst composition and a method for producing organic molecules having at least two carbon atoms chained together by the reaction of a hydrogen-containing source, a carbon-containing source and an optional nitrogen-containing source. Composition of the nanostructure catalyst affects the solar-to-chemical efficiency, active lifetime and reaction product of the artificial photosynthesis reaction.

A catalyst composition for converting an alcohol to olefins, the catalyst composition comprising the following components: (a) a support (e.g., particles) comprising silicon and oxygen; (b) at least one of copper and silver residing on and/or incorporated into said support; and (c) at least one lanthanide element residing on and/or incorporated into said support. The catalyst may also further include component (d), which is zinc. Also described herein is a method for converting an alcohol to one or more olefinic compounds (an olefin fraction) by contacting the alcohol with a catalyst at a temperature of at least 100° C. and up to 500° C. to result in direct conversion of the alcohol to an olefin fraction containing one or more olefinic compounds containing at least three carbon atoms; wherein ethylene and propylene are produced in a minor proportion of the olefin fraction, and butenes and higher olefins are produced in major proportion.

A hydrocarbon production method for producing hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon mixture includes: a first extractive distillation step of performing extractive distillation of an extractive distillation target to obtain a fraction (A) in which isoprene and piperylene are enriched and a fraction (B) in which a linear hydrocarbon and a branched hydrocarbon are enriched; a first distillation step of obtaining a fraction (C) in which isoprene is enriched and a fraction (D) in which piperylene is enriched from the fraction (A); a dehydrogenation step of performing dehydrogenation or oxidative dehydrogenation of either or both of the linear hydrocarbon and the branched hydrocarbon contained in the fraction (B) to obtain a dehydrogenated product; and a recovery step of supplying the dehydrogenated product to an extractive distillation column or a distillation column and obtaining isoprene and/or piperylene from the dehydrogenated product.