TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of chitosan addition on NiMo/Al2O3 catalysts for dibenzothiophene hydrodesulfurization
AU - Ríos-Caloch, Guillermina
AU - Santes, Víctor
AU - Escobar, Jose
AU - Valle-Orta, Maiby
AU - Barrera, María C.
AU - Hernandez-Barrera, Melissa
N1 - Funding Information:
∗Corresponding author: José Escobar, jeaguila@imp.mx Acknowledgements. G. Ríos-Caloch acknowledges financial support from IPN (México) through a scholarship for Ph D studies (Grants 20080421, 20090820 and 20100448). M. Valle-Orta thanks Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Distrito Federal (ICyTDF, México), for a Post-doctoral fellowship. The authors gratefully acknowledge to E. Torres for fruitful discussions on thermal analysis data interpretation.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A series of supported NiMo catalysts were prepared by impregnating ammonium heptamolybdate and nickel nitrate (at 12 and 3 wt% of Mo and Ni, respectively) over chitosan (Chi) modified Al2O3 carrier. Alumina substrate was first impregnated with the organic additive (in acidic aqueous HNO3 solution, given the insolubility of chitosan at neutral pH) at concentrations corresponding to Chi/Ni mol ratios of 0.5, 1 and 2. Lower Mo dispersion in materials prepared over Chi-modified alumina was observed by Raman spectroscopy. Also, in those samples formation of hardly reducible aluminum molybdates (due to acidic conditions used during chitosan deposition) was evidenced by thermal analysis. Sulfided (under H2S/H2 flow, at 400 °C) catalysts were tested in dibenzothiophene hydrodesulfurization (HDS, at 72.4 kg/cm2, 320 °C, batch reactor, n-hexadecane as solvent) where no improved activity (in pseudo first order kinetic constant basis) was registered for chitosan-modified samples. However, increased selectivity to the product from direct desulfurization route (biphenyl) suggested enhanced promotion of MoS2 phase (by Ni) in catalysts prepared with organic additive. CO adsorption at -173 °C (followed by infrared spectroscopy) showed lower concentration of NiMoS active sites over catalysts prepared over chitosan-impregnated alumina carrier pointing out to the existence of highly efficient sites, in spite of their lower surface concentration. The present investigation opens the possibility of using chitosan, a sub-product from seafood industry, as efficient HDS catalyst additive.
AB - A series of supported NiMo catalysts were prepared by impregnating ammonium heptamolybdate and nickel nitrate (at 12 and 3 wt% of Mo and Ni, respectively) over chitosan (Chi) modified Al2O3 carrier. Alumina substrate was first impregnated with the organic additive (in acidic aqueous HNO3 solution, given the insolubility of chitosan at neutral pH) at concentrations corresponding to Chi/Ni mol ratios of 0.5, 1 and 2. Lower Mo dispersion in materials prepared over Chi-modified alumina was observed by Raman spectroscopy. Also, in those samples formation of hardly reducible aluminum molybdates (due to acidic conditions used during chitosan deposition) was evidenced by thermal analysis. Sulfided (under H2S/H2 flow, at 400 °C) catalysts were tested in dibenzothiophene hydrodesulfurization (HDS, at 72.4 kg/cm2, 320 °C, batch reactor, n-hexadecane as solvent) where no improved activity (in pseudo first order kinetic constant basis) was registered for chitosan-modified samples. However, increased selectivity to the product from direct desulfurization route (biphenyl) suggested enhanced promotion of MoS2 phase (by Ni) in catalysts prepared with organic additive. CO adsorption at -173 °C (followed by infrared spectroscopy) showed lower concentration of NiMoS active sites over catalysts prepared over chitosan-impregnated alumina carrier pointing out to the existence of highly efficient sites, in spite of their lower surface concentration. The present investigation opens the possibility of using chitosan, a sub-product from seafood industry, as efficient HDS catalyst additive.
KW - Chitosan
KW - Dibenzothiophene HDS
KW - Low-temperature CO adsorption
KW - NiMo/alumina catalyst
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U2 - 10.1515/1542-6580.2893
DO - 10.1515/1542-6580.2893
M3 - Artículo
SN - 2194-5748
VL - 10
JO - International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
JF - International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
IS - 1
M1 - A71
ER -