scholarly journals Synthesis and Characterization of Co-Mo/γ-Alumina Catalyst from local Kaolin clay for Hydrodesulfurization of Iraqi Naphtha

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Nada Sadoon Ahmed zeki ◽  
Sattar Jalil Hussein ◽  
Khalifa K. Aoyed ◽  
Saad Kareem Ibrahim ◽  
Ibtissam K. Mehawee

This work deals with the hydrodesulfurization of three types of naphtha feedstocks; mixednaphtha (WN), heavy naphtha (HN) & light naphtha (LN) with a sulfur content of 1642.1,1334.9 & 709 ppm respectively, obtained from Missan refinery using prepared Co-Mo/γ-Al2O3catalyst. The Iraqi white kaolin was used as a starting material for the preparation of γ-Al2O3support, transferring kaolin to meta-kaolin was studied through calcination at differenttemperatures and durations, kaolin structure was investigated using X-Ray diffractiontechniques.High purity 94.83%. Crystalline γ-Al2O3 with a surface area of 129.91 m2/gm, pore volume0.9002 cm3/g was synthesized by extraction of Iraqi kaolin with H2SO4 at different acid to clayweight ratios, acid concentrations & leaching time. Ethanol was used as precipitating agent; theresultant gel was dried and calcined at 70OC, 10 hrs & 900 OC, 2 hrs respectively.The effects of different parameters on the average crystallinity and extraction % ofsynthesized γ-Al2O3 were studied like; acid: clay ratio, sulfuric acid concentration, leachingtime, leaching temperature & kaolin conversion to metakaolin. Characterization of prepared γ-Al2O3 & Co-Mo catalyst were achieved by X-ray diffraction, FTIR-spectra, texture properties& BET surface area, BJH N2 adsorption porosity, AFM, SEM, crush strength & XRF tests. Co-Mo/ γ-Al2O3 catalyst with final loading 5.702 wt% and 21.45 wt% of Co and Mo oxidesrespectively was prepared by impregnation methods.The activity of prepared Co-Mo/γ-Al2O3 catalyst after moulding to be tested forhydrodesulfurization (HDS) of naphtha feedstock W.N, H.N & L.N was performed using apilot hydrotreating unit at petroleum research & development centre, at different operatingconditions. Effects of temperature, LHSV, pressure, time & pore size distribution were studied,the best percentage of sulfur removal is increased with decreasing LHSV to 2 hr-1 as a generaltrend to be 89.71, 99.72, 99.20 % at 310oC for the whole naphtha, heavy naphtha and lightnaphtha feedstocks respectively, at 34 bar pressure and 200/200 cm3/cm3 H2/HC ratio.

2008 ◽  
Vol 368-372 ◽  
pp. 1130-1132
Author(s):  
Hong Zhi Wang ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Yun Xin Gu ◽  
Yao Gang Li ◽  
Mei Fang Zhu

Ti0.6Cr0.4OxNy bimetallic metal oxynitride nano powder was synthesized by ammonolysis of the nanosized Cr2O3/TiO2 composite powder with n(Ti):n(Cr)=6:4 at 800oC for 8 h. The precursor and the resulting oxynitride were characterized by Auger electron spectroscope (AES), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and BET surface area techniques. The result indicated that the precursor was homogenous mixture of Cr2O3 and TiO2 with high BET surface area. The as-synthesized oxynitride powder contains only Ti0.6Cr0.4OxNy with cubic structure. The BET surface area of the oxynitride powder is 37.42 m2/g and the particle size is in the range of 20~30 nm.


Author(s):  
Eko Supriadi ◽  
Danawati Hadi Prajitno ◽  
Mahfud Mahfud ◽  
Ngatijo Ngatijo ◽  
Rahmat Basuki

Metal doping plays important role in increasing catalytic activity of catalyst materials. In this work, Ca and K were doped to the γ-Al2O3 by dry impregnation method to study the crystallinity, surface area, activation energy, and yield in the coconut oil transesterification reaction. The success of doping was shown in the characterization of Ca/γ-Al2O3 and K/γ-Al2O­3 using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) which increasing in crystallinity from 62.2% (γ-Al2O3) to 69.3 (K/γ-Al2O3) and 76.0 (Ca/γ-Al2O3). The emerging peak of 2θ characteristics of K (29.70° and 32.65°) and Ca (25.35°, 26.77°, and 27.17°) on the γ-Al2O3 (37.66°, 45.82° and 67.22 °) was also observed. Characterization by the Surface Area Analyzer (SAA) shows that the K/γ-Al2O3 catalyst has a smaller surface area (34.03 m2/g) than Ca/γ-Al2O3 (83.77 m2/g), but a higher pore diameter (66.12 Å) than Ca/γ-Al2O3 (35.22 Å). The K/γ-Al2O­3 catalyst produced greater FAME yield (93.19%) than Ca/γ-Al2O3 (29.76%) at a catalyst concentration of 2.5%, reaction time 150 s, and ultrasonic frequency of 40 kHz. The quality of the FAME catalyzed by K/γ-Al2O­3 fulfills four test parameters: density, kinematic viscosity, flash point, and pour point according to SNI 04-7182-2006 standards.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1112 ◽  
pp. 62-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Sri Yusmartini ◽  
Dedi Setiabudidaya ◽  
Ridwan ◽  
Marsi ◽  
Faizal

Nanoparticles, particles of size 10-9have a high potential as water, waste water and air pollution treatment. In this research, nanoscale iron particles were synthesized by reduction of Fe2SO47 H2O by NaBH4at low temperature to avoid oxidation during the process. Characterization of the particles based on particle size, material structure, surface morphology and the composition of forming element was done by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectometry (EDS), respectively. Surface area and magnetic character was measured by BET surface area and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), respectively. Morfological observation showed that structured core-shell of size < 44 nm and shell of size ~ 3 nm with saturated magnetization value ~ 132 emu g‾¹ has been formed.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1238
Author(s):  
Garven M. Huntley ◽  
Rudy L. Luck ◽  
Michael E. Mullins ◽  
Nick K. Newberry

Four naturally occurring zeolites were examined to verify their assignments as chabazites AZLB-Ca and AZLB-Na (Bowie, Arizona) and clinoptilolites NM-Ca (Winston, New Mexico) and NV-Na (Ash Meadows, Nevada). Based on powder X-ray diffraction, NM-Ca was discovered to be mostly quartz with some clinoptilolite residues. Treatment with concentrated HCl (12.1 M) acid resulted in AZLB-Ca and AZLB-Na, the chabazite-like species, becoming amorphous, as confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction. In contrast, NM-Ca and NV-Na, which are clinoptilolite-like species, withstood boiling in concentrated HCl acid. This treatment removes calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, aluminum, and iron atoms or ions from the framework while leaving the silicon framework intact as confirmed via X-ray fluorescence and diffraction. SEM images on calcined and HCl treated NV-Na were obtained. BET surface area analysis confirmed an increase in surface area for the two zeolites after treatment, NM-Ca 20.0(1) to 111(4) m2/g and NV-Na 19.0(4) to 158(7) m2/g. 29Si and 27Al MAS NMR were performed on the natural and treated NV-Na zeolite, and the data for the natural NV-Na zeolite suggested a Si:Al ratio of 4.33 similar to that determined by X-Ray fluorescence of 4.55. Removal of lead ions from solution decreased from the native NM-Ca, 0.27(14), NV-Na, 1.50(17) meq/g compared to the modified zeolites, 30 min HCl treated NM-Ca 0.06(9) and NV-Na, 0.41(23) meq/g, and also decreased upon K+ ion pretreatment in the HCl modified zeolites.


2013 ◽  
Vol 594-595 ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sze Mei Chin ◽  
Suriati Sufian ◽  
Jeefferie Abd Razak

This paper highlights on the hydrogen production through photocatalytic activity by using hematite nanoparticles synthesized from self-combustion method based on different stirring period. The morphologies and microstructures of the nanostructures were determined using Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) and Particle Size Analyser (PSA). Besides that, surface area analyser was used to determine the BET surface area of the hematite samples. The hematite nanocatalyst as-synthesized are proven to be rhombohedral crystalline hematite (α-Fe2O3) with particle diameters ranging from 60-140 nm. The BET specific surface area of hematite samples increased from 5.437 to 7.6425 m2/g with increasing stirring period from 1 to 4 weeks. This caused the amount of hydrogen gas produced from photocatalytic water splitting to increase as well.


Catalysts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penghe Su ◽  
Ya Chen ◽  
Xiaotong Liu ◽  
Hongyuan Chuai ◽  
Hongchi Liu ◽  
...  

A simple and practical Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of vinyl acetate has been synthesized via impregnation-calcination method using silicate nanotubes (MgSNTs) as the supporter. The Rh0 (zero valent state of rhodium) was obtained by calcination. The influence of calcination temperature on catalytic performance of the catalysts was investigated in detail. The catalysts were characterized in detail by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS), atomic emission spectrometer (ICP), and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface-area analyzers. The Rh/MgSNTs(a2) catalyst shows excellent catalytic activity, selectivity and superior cyclicity. The catalyst could be easily recovered by phase separation and was used up to four times.


2007 ◽  
Vol 534-536 ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luo Ji ◽  
Lin Tao ◽  
Zhi Meng Guo ◽  
Cheng Chang Jia

Vacuum carburization of nanometer tungsten powder was investigated in a simple designed apparatus. An X-Y recorder was used to plot differential thermal analysis (DTA) curves to determine the starting temperature of carburization of four samples with different specific surface area. The product was characterized by X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The results show that finer tungsten powder has lower starting temperature of carburization. Tungsten powder, the BET surface area of which is 32.97m2/g, was completely carburized to tungsten carbide at 1050°C, even though the starting temperature was 890°C. The particle was found to grow sharply before carburization.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawei Gao ◽  
Lili Wang ◽  
Chunxia Wang ◽  
Yuping Chang ◽  
Pibo Ma

Abstract Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/Co(OAc)2/carbon nanotubes (CNTs) composite nanofibers were fabricated via electrospinning with N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as solvent, and by carbonization and activation of the above precursor nanofibers, porous carbon composite nanofibers were successfully obtained. Scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction, ASAP 2020, and Solartron 1470 were used to characterize the surface morphology, the phase composition, specific surface area, and electrochemical property of the nanofibers, respectively. The result showed that some of the fibers were broken after sintering, and the surface area and pore volume of the porous C/Cu/CNTs were 771 m2/g and 0.347 cm3/g, respectively. The specific capacitance of the composite nanofibers reached up to 210 F/g at the current density of 1.0 A/g. Its energy density and power density were 3.1 Wh/Kg and 2,337 W/Kg, respectively, at the current of 0.5 and 5 mA.


2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Phattepur ◽  
Gowrishankar Bychapur Siddaiah ◽  
Nagaraju Ganganagappa

A sol-gel method was employed to synthesise pure titanium dioxide (TiO2) and surfactant assisted TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs). The effect of novel surfactant viz., Lauryl lactyl lactate on photocatalytic properties of TiO2 was studied. TiO2 NPs were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-Vis Diffuse Reflectance spectra (DRS), Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA), and Brunauer – Emmet - Teller (BET) surface area. Anatase phase of TiO2 was confirmed by X-Ray diffraction pattern and the crystallite size was between 9–19 nm. Addition of surfactant improved the BET surface area, surface defects, while the agglomeration of particles was reduced. DRS results revealed that the addition of surfactant to TiO2 sol induced a red shift of the absorption edge which resulted in the reduction of band gap from 3.23 to 3.21 eV. These physicochemical properties of TiO2 NPs were correlated with photocatalytic degradation of phenol. About 92% of phenol degradation was observed for surfactant assisted TiO2 NPs (SA-TiO2). Salicylic acid and caffeine were also degraded using SA-TiO2 NPs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1141 ◽  
pp. 190-195
Author(s):  
Hitesh Saravaia ◽  
Hariom Gupta ◽  
Vaibhav Kulshreshtha

Barium Titanate (BaTiO3) nanostructures are synthesized by the molten salt-hydroxide reaction. The crystalline phase and chemical structure of the synthesized material are analyzed using powder x-ray diffraction (XRD) and FT-IR techniques, revealing the tetragonal BaTiO3 crystalline structure. Morphology and thermal stability of the material are characterized using TEM and TG-DTG analysis. BET surface area analysis shows significant active surface available for adsorption and its surface area value is found to be 14.8427 m2 g-1. The maximum adsorption of strontium metal is found to be 56.3 for the 1.2 g L-1 BaTiO3 adsorbent dose which reveals a remarkable separation property of the BaTiO3.


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