Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2008, 73, 945-955
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20080945
The Effect of γ-Al2O3, TiO2 and ZrO2 Supports on Hydrodesulfurization Activity of Transition-Metal Sulfides
Luděk Kaluža* and Miroslav Zdražil
Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Rozvojová 135, 165 02 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Abstract
The transition metals V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, W, Re, Os, Ir and Pt were deposited from aqueous solutions of their salts onto conventional γ-Al2O3 and unconventional TiO2 and ZrO2 supports by vacuum impregnation and characterized in their sulfided form by a model reaction of benzothiophene hydrodesulfurization. It was found that the TiO2 and ZrO2 supports influenced predominantly positively the resulting activity of relatively low-active metals (V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, Ru, W and Os), whereas the highly active metals (Rh, Pd, Ir, Pt and Re) were influenced slightly negatively or not at all by those supports compared with the γ-Al2O3-supported system. A significant effect of the supports on the hydrodesulfurization-activity ranking of the transition-metal sulfides studied was ascertained.
Keywords: Hydrodesulfurization; Transition-metal sulfides; Sulfide catalysts; γ-Al2O3; TiO2; ZrO2.
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