The effectiveness of hydrogen transfer desulfurization (HTD) in heavy oil hydrotreatment was investigated using tetralin as a hydrogen donor solvent. Reactions were carried out at reaction temperatures 410 and 450& using a batch reactor with varying the initial hydrogen pressure.Three different catalysts, namely a highly active dispersed Mo-Co-P-S (I), another kind of dispersed Mo-Co-P-S which was severely poisoned by excess phosphorus (II) and CoMo/Al
2O
3, were utilized. Parallel experiments using decalin, a poor hydrogen donor, were also performed to compare with the results using tetralin.
The results with the catalyst (I) revealed that at low hydrogen pressure the HTD did function effectively but at a higher pressure, i.e. at an initial hydrogen charge of 80kg/cm
2 or higher, no advantageous effect of tetralin addition was observed. The effectiveness of HTD seemed to depend upon such catalyst functions as dissociative adsorption of molecular hydrogen and dehydrogenation of solvents.
Both of the devanadization and the coke-forming reactions were largely affected by hydrogen pressure, and at 80kg/cm
2 of initial charge the results of reactions with tetralin were almost the same as those with decalin, irrespective of the kind of catalyst used. This indicates the reaction sites for those reactions are different from the sites for desulfurization.
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