Remoção de compostos sulfurados e nitrogenados de diesel hidrotratado por adsorção em argila, alumina e sílica-alumina, impregnadas com metais de transição

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Aaron Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11938
• topic: desulphurization and denitrogenation by adsorption; diesel; transition metals; silica-aluminas; clays; alumina; dessulfurização e desnitrogenação por adsorção; diesel; metais de transição; sílica-alumina; argila; alumina; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA QUIMICA::TECNOLOGIA QUIMICA

Diesel oil has a prominent role in the Brazilian energy matrix, but is still marketed with high levels of sulfur and nitrogen compounds compared to the next years ongoing environmental legislation. Traditionally, the removal of sulfur compounds from petroleum streams is performed by the hydrotreating processes (HDT). However, due to the Brazilian diesel characteristics, more stringent operation conditions are necessary to achieve new fuel specifications. This involves investment and operating costs rising to meet demand that is installed. In this context, adsorption is being studied for the purification of HDT diesel oil as a final polishing to meet the specifications. It is known that the commercial adsorbents have limitations in removing these contaminants and an alternative that has been shown promising is the incorporation of transition metal in the solid structure. In this work we modified commercial adsorbents such as alumina, silica-aluminas and clays by the introduction of the elements nickel, colbalto, and molybdenum and the behavior of theses modifications was testes against adsorption of sulfur and nitrogen present in HDT diesel oil. Physical, textural, and morphological characterizations of the solids were performed with and without addition of transition metals in its structure original. The adsorption experiments were performed at 40°C. Evaluating all the solids, the adsorbent that showed the best performance in the removal of sulfur compounds and nitrogen per mass of adsorbent was the silica-alumina without modification, which was able to remove around 90% of nitrogen and 55% of sulfur with 2 g of solid / 10 mL of diesel. For the modified materials, it was observed that incorporation of transition metals led to reduction of its surface area and total pore volume. Thus, the expected effects of interactions between the metal sites and nitrogen and sulfur compounds were reduced