Alumina supported polymolybdate catalysts utilizing tert-butyl hydroperoxide oxidant for desulfurization of Malaysian diesel fuel

Wan Nazwanie Wan Abdullah; Wan Azelee Wan Abu Bakar; Rusmidah Ali

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.32, No.10, 1999-2006, October, 2015

DOI10.1007/s11814-015-0047-5 Export Citation

Alumina supported polymolybdate catalysts utilizing tert-butyl hydroperoxide oxidant for desulfurization of Malaysian diesel fuel

Wan Nazwanie Wan Abdullah, Wan Azelee Wan Abu Bakar^†, and Rusmidah Ali

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

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The performance of oxidative desulfurization (ODS) of commercial diesel by alumina supported polymolybdate based catalyst system was studied using tert-butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidizing agent. From catalytic testing, MoO3-Al2O3 calcined at 500 oC was the most potential catalyst which gave the highest sulfur removal under mild condition. The sulfur content in commercial diesel was successfully reduced from 440 ppmw to 105 ppmw followed by solvent extraction. Response surface methodology involving Box-Behnken was employed to evaluate and optimize MoO3/Al2O3 preparation parameters (calcination temperatures, molybdenum loading precursor and catalyst loading), and their optimum values were found to be 510 oC, 0.98 g and 11.18 g/L of calcination temperature, molybdenum loading precursor and catalyst loading, respectively. Based on results, the reaction mechanism for oxidation of sulfur compounds to the corresponding sulfones occur in the presence of MoO3 /Al2O3 catalyst was proposed.

Keywords:Polymolybdates Catalyst;Oxidative Desulfurization;Commercial Diesel;Box Behnken Design;Tert-butyl Hydroperoxide

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[2] Shayegan Z, Razzaghi M, Niaei A, Salari D, Tabar MTS, Akbari AN, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 30(9), 1751 (2013)

[3] Wang GJ, Zhang JK, Liu Y, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 30, 1565 (2013)

[4] Otsuki S, Nonaka T, Qian W, Ishihara A, Kabe T, J. Jpn. Petro. Inst., 44, 18 (2001)

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[7] Abu Bakar WAW, Ali R, Kadir AAA, Mokhtar WNAW, Fuel Process. Technol., 101, 78 (2012)

[8] Adzamic T, Sertic-Bionda K, Marcec-Rahelic N, Pet. Sci. Technol., 28, 1936 (2010)

[9] Box GEP, Behnken DW, Technometrics, 2, 455 (1960)

[10] Ibrahim AA, El-Shobaky GA, Thermochim. Acta, 147, 175 (1989)

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[12] Akbari A, Omidkhah M, Darian JT, World Acad. Sci. Eng. Technol., 67 (2012)

[13] Wachs IE, Catal. Today, 27(3-4), 437 (1996)

[14] Bakar WAWA, Ali R, Toemen S, Scientia Iranica., 19, 525 (2012)

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[16] Wang L, Cai HJ, Li SZ, Mominou N, Fuel, 105, 752 (2013)

[17] Tang Q, Lin S, Cheng Y, Liu S, Xiong JR, Ultrason. Sonochem., 20, 1168 (2013)

[18] Garcia-Gutierrez JL, Fuentes GA, Hernandez-Teran ME, Garcia P, Murrieta-Guevara F, Jimenez-Cruz F, Appl. Catal. A: Gen., 334(1-2), 366 (2008)