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Article

Molybdenum Carbide and Sulfide Nanoparticles as Selective Hydrotreating Catalysts for FCC Slurry Oil to Remove Olefins and Sulfur

by
He Liu
,
Zhipeng Qiu
*,
Huihui Pan
,
Aijun Guo
*,
Shouhui Jiao
,
Feng Wang
,
Kun Chen
and
Zongxian Wang
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), 66 Changjiang West Road, Huangdao District, Qingdao 266580, China
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Nanomaterials 2021, 11(10), 2721; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102721
Submission received: 17 September 2021 / Revised: 12 October 2021 / Accepted: 12 October 2021 / Published: 15 October 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
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Abstract

As the two types of major impurities in FCC slurry oil (SLO), olefins and sulfur seriously deteriorate the preparation and quality of mesophase pitch or needle coke. The development of a hydrotreatment for SLO to remove olefins and sulfur selectively becomes imperative. This work presents the potentiality of dispersed Mo2C and MoS2 nanoparticles as selective hydrotreating catalysts of SLO. Mo2C was synthesized by the carbonization of citric acid, ammonium molybdate and KCl mixtures while MoS2 was prepared from the decomposition of precursors. These catalysts were characterized by XRD, HRTEM, XPS, BJH, BET, and applied to the hydrotreating of an SLO surrogate with defined components and real SLO. The conversion of olefins, dibenzothiophene and anthracene in the surrogate was detected by GC-MS. Elemental analysis, bromine number, diene value, 1H-NMR and spot test were used to characterize the changes of the real SLO. The results show that hydrotreating the SLO surrogate with a very small amount of Mo-based nanoparticles could selectively remove olefins and sulfur without the overhydrogenation of polyaromatics. Mo2C exhibited much better activity than MoS2, with 95% of olefins and dibenzothiophene in the surrogate removed while only 15% anthracene was hydrogenated. The stability of the real SLO was significantly improved. Its structural parameters changed subtly, proving the aromatic macromolecules had been preserved.
Keywords: molybdenum carbide nanoparticles; molybdenum sulfide nanoparticles; selective hydrotreating; FCC slurry oil; olefins and sulfur removal molybdenum carbide nanoparticles; molybdenum sulfide nanoparticles; selective hydrotreating; FCC slurry oil; olefins and sulfur removal
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Liu, H.; Qiu, Z.; Pan, H.; Guo, A.; Jiao, S.; Wang, F.; Chen, K.; Wang, Z. Molybdenum Carbide and Sulfide Nanoparticles as Selective Hydrotreating Catalysts for FCC Slurry Oil to Remove Olefins and Sulfur. Nanomaterials 2021, 11, 2721. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102721

AMA Style

Liu H, Qiu Z, Pan H, Guo A, Jiao S, Wang F, Chen K, Wang Z. Molybdenum Carbide and Sulfide Nanoparticles as Selective Hydrotreating Catalysts for FCC Slurry Oil to Remove Olefins and Sulfur. Nanomaterials. 2021; 11(10):2721. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102721

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Liu, He, Zhipeng Qiu, Huihui Pan, Aijun Guo, Shouhui Jiao, Feng Wang, Kun Chen, and Zongxian Wang. 2021. "Molybdenum Carbide and Sulfide Nanoparticles as Selective Hydrotreating Catalysts for FCC Slurry Oil to Remove Olefins and Sulfur" Nanomaterials 11, no. 10: 2721. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102721

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Liu, H., Qiu, Z., Pan, H., Guo, A., Jiao, S., Wang, F., Chen, K., & Wang, Z. (2021). Molybdenum Carbide and Sulfide Nanoparticles as Selective Hydrotreating Catalysts for FCC Slurry Oil to Remove Olefins and Sulfur. Nanomaterials, 11(10), 2721. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102721

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