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XX SICAT – Simpósio Ibero-Americano de Catálise Study of cobalt and ruthenium supported on WC catalysts for FT reaction. A. Griboval-Constant(1)*, J.-M. Giraudon(1), I. Twagishema(1), G. Leclercq(1), M.E. Rivas(2), J. Alvarez(2), M.J. Perez-Zurita(2), M.R. Goldwasser(2) (1) Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, UMR CNRS 8181, USTL, Batiment. C3, 59655 Villeneuve D’Ascq,, France. (2) Centro de Catalisis, Petroleo y Petroquimica, Escuela de Quimica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47102, Los Chaguaramos, Caracas, Venezuela. Resumen-Abstract An investigation of bulk and cobalt or ruthenium supported tungsten carbide was carried out for their use in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. Two types of WC were studied : tungsten carbide protected by free carbon and clean tungsten carbide, respectively noticed WC(A) and WC(B). XPS analysis shows that after air exposure, the WC(A) carbide surface is protected from the excess carbon whereas a surface W6+ phase is induced during the passivation step for WC(B). However WC(A) is inert towards aqueous impregnation, whereas WC(B) starts to corrode. A reduction in hydrogen at 673 K for Ru and 773K for Co supported catalysts allows obtaining Co0 and Ru0 dispersed on layers of free carbon covering the WC core for WC(A) and on a surface free of oxygen for WC(B). All the catalysts were active for the FT reaction. WC(A) produces mainly light alkanes (78%) and alcohols (22%), whereas no alcohol production is observed for WC(B). Co/WC(B) has a better activity than Co/WC(A), due to a better dispersion of cobalt on WC(B). The addition of Ru on WC(A) allow to obtain an high active catalyst with production of heavy hydrocarbons. On the contrary, formation of a Ru-W alloy could be consider to explain the low activity of Ru/WC(B) catalyst. Introduction The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis leads to a broad range of products, i.e. hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids ans esters, etc. The increasingly stringent regulations on the su