Study of Carbon Nanotube Supported Co-Mo Selective Hydrodesulphurization Catalysts for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Gasoline

In this paper, carbon nanotube supported Co-Mo catalysts for selective hydrodesulphurization （HDS） of fluid catalytic cracking （FCC） gasoline were studied, using di-isobutylene, cyclohexene, 1-octene and thiophene as model compounds to simulate FCC gasoline. The results show that the Co-Mo/CNT has very high HDS activity and HDS/hydrogenation selectivity comparing with the Co-Mo/γ-Al2O3 and Co-Mo/AC catalyst systems. The saturation ratio of cyclohexene was lower than 50%, and the saturation ratio of 1,3-di-isobutylene lower than 60% for the Co-Mo/CNT catalysts. Co/Mo atomic ratio was found to be one of the most important key factors in influencing the hydrogenation selectivity and HDS activity, and the most suitable Co/Mo atomic ratio was 0.4. Co/CNT and Mo/CNT mono-metallic catalysts showed lower HDS activity and selectivity than the Co-Mo/CNT bi-metallic catalysts.

Hydrodesulphurization of Bonny light crude oil using nano Co–Mo supported on zeolite synthesized from Akoko clay

At present,petroleum remains the single largest global source of nearly all transportation fuel and the main source of industrial chemicals.But the legislative demand for cleaner fuel in automobile worldwide has forced scientists to develop and adopt new technologies to reduce the amount of sulphur in fuel.In this study,a Co–Mo catalyst supported on zeolite synthesized from local clay was developed and tested in hydrodesulphurization reactions,using Bonny light crude oil feed.The Co–Mo was incorporated into the zeolite by wet impregnation method and its activity was evaluated in a batch reactor.The catalyst was characterized and the efficiency was investigated in terms of product distribution and reaction conditions.With a rise in the temperature,the sulphur in the crude oil gets released into the liquid and gas effluents.In the case of gas effluents,the removal of sulphur depends on the reaction temperature,while in the liquid products,the removal of sulphur lies on the reaction time rather than the reaction temperature.The use of this catalyst results in significant upgraded and enhanced oil production with an environmentally friendly fuel,which therefore recommended as an alternative to conventional industrial catalysts.

Novel MWCNT-Support for Co-Mo Sulfide Catalyst in HDS of Thiophene and HDN of Pyrrole

With home-made multi-walled carbon nanotubes （MWCNTs, simplified as CNTs in later text） as support, CNT-supported Co-Mo-S catalysts, denoted as x%（mass percentage）MoiCoj/CNTs, were prepared. Their catalytic performance for thiophene hydrodesulfurization （HDS） and pyrrole hydrodenitrification （HDN） reactions was studied, and compared with the reference system sup- ported by AC. Over the 7.24%Mo3Co1/CNTs catalyst at reaction condition of 1.5 MPa, 613 K, C4H4S/H2=3.7/96.3（molar ratio） and GHSV≈8000 mlswP/（g-cat.h）, the specific HDS activity of thiophene reached 3.29 mmolc4H4S/（s.molMo）, which was 1.32 times as high as that （2.49 mmolc4H4S/（s.molMo）） of the AC-based counterpart, and was 2.47 times as high as that （1.33 mmolc4H4S/（s-molMo）） of the catalysts supported by AC with the respective optimal MoaCol-loading amount, 16.90%Mo3Co1/AC. Analogous reaction-chemical behaviours were also observed in the case of pyrrole HDN. It was experimentally found that using the CNTs in place of AC as support of the catalyst caused little change in the apparent activation energy for the thiophene HDS or pyrrole HDN reaction, but led to a significant increase in the concentration of catalytically active Mo-species （Mo^4＋） at the surface of the functioning catalyst. On the other hand, H2-TPD measurements revealed that the CNT-supported catalyst could reversibly adsorb a greater amount of hydrogen under atmospheric pressure at temperatures ranging from room temperature to about 673 K. This unique feature would help to generate microenvironments with higher stationarystate concentration of active hydrogen-adspecies at the surface of the functioning catalyst. Both factors mentioned above were favorable to increasing the rate of thiophene HDS and pyrrole HDN reactions.