Patent ID: 9737882
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B01J,C07C,C10G

Claim:
1. A process for preparing a chlorine comprising catalyst, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst comprising: (b) impregnating the catalyst with one or more solutions comprising chloride ions until the catalyst comprises 0.13-10 weight percent of the element chlorine, calculated on the total weight of the catalyst, wherein the metal salt(s) of chloride with which the catalyst is impregnated in step (b) is/are a chloride of manganese, cobalt, vanadium, titanium, silver, gold, zinc, platinum, palladium, zirconium, ruthenium, rhenium, rhodium, chromium, nickel, iron, osmium, or iridium or mixtures thereof; (c) heating the impregnated catalyst at a temperature in the range of 100 to 500° C. for at least 5 minutes up to 2 days.