... THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE PROMOTING EFFECT OF BORON ON COBALT CATALYST USED FOR FISCHER- TROPSCH SYNTHESIS (FTS) TAN KONG FEI (B Eng & M Phil., University of Malaya, ... Armando Borgna, Mark Saeys, Effect of Boron Promotion on the Stability of Cobalt Fischer- Tropsch catalyst , Journal of Catalysis, 280 (2011), 50 XX CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Fischer- Tropsch Synthesis ... 2010) The objective of this thesis is therefore to first understand the mechanism responsible for the deactivation of Co catalyst under realistic FTS conditions The deactivation of Co catalysts...