Hydrotreating of LGO Derived from Oil Sands (Part 2) : Development of Amorphous Solid Acid Catalyst

Abstract

Nippon Oil is working on the catalyst development to meet the Japanese specification of diesel, which is distilled from the oil sands-derived synthetic crude oil. The cetane number of the product oil, which is obtained by hydrotreating over the NiW catalyst supported on the amorphous silica-titania, was higher than that of the feed oil. The main factor of the cetane number-increase is the naphthenic ring opening activity of the developed catalyst.