Hydrogenation reactions have a variety of applications in the chemical industry which is shown by the corresponding products, such as ammonia, methanol, and polyamides. In petrochemistry, the addition of hydrogen is used to adjust properties of product mixtures, e.g. in the hydrocracking or hydrotreating. For renewables the same is already feasible or first proofs of concept were already shown....

In an Al2O3-TiO2 mixed oxide system, the incorporation of TiO2 to alumina is known to increase the acidity of the resulting mixed oxide; depending strongly on the preparation method and the titania concentration. When using TiO2 as a support of NiMo catalysts, initial catalytic activity in hydrodesulfurization reactions is much higher than that on catalysts based on pure alumina. One of the mai...

Residue catalytic hydrogenation was carried out in a two-stage downflow fixed-bed reactor system, with HDM catalyst the first stage and HDS second one, to mimic industrial operation. The experiments were run at five sets of temperatures (395 °C (first reactor)/405 (second reactor), 400 °C/410 °C, 405 °C/415 410 °C/420 420 °C/430 °C). It found that initial deactivation mainly caused by rapid dep...

NiMoS and CoMoS catalysts were synthesized applied to hydrotreating (HDT) of FCC light cycle oils (FCC-LCO) in an autoclave batch reactor at 613 K 8.6 MPa H2. The S N compounds LCO classified into four three groups, respectively, terms the HDT reactivity. individual competitive reactivities HDS HDN investigated over conventional using model (dibenzothiophene, DBT, carbazole, CBZ). In both direc...

This paper presents a study on the data-driven modelling and optimisation of a crude oil hydrotreating process using bootstrap aggregated neural networks. Hydrotreating (HDT) is a chemical process that can be widely used in crude oil refineries to remove undesirable impurities like sulphur, nitrogen, oxygen, metal and aromatic compounds. In order to enhance the operation efficiency of HDT proce...

Lignocellulosic biomass conversion to produce biofuels has received significant attention because of the quest for a replacement for fossil fuels. Among the various thermochemical and biochemical routes, fast pyrolysis followed by catalytic hydrotreating is considered to be a promising near-term opportunity. This paper reports on experimental methods used 1) at the National Renewable Energy Lab...