Synergetic effect between sulfurized MoγAl2O3 and NiγAl2O3 catalysts.pdf

Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry 20(2011)214–217 γ γ Synergetic effect between sulfurized Mo/γγ-Al O and Ni/γγ-Al O 2 3 2 3 catalysts in hydrodenitrogenation of quinoline Lihua Liu, Bin Liu, Yongming Chai, Yunqi Liu, Chenguang Liu∗ State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, Key Laboratory of Catalysis, CNPC, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266555, Shandong, China [ Manuscript received November 9, 2010; revised January 20, 2011 ] Abstract An evidence for the synergetic effect between the stacked bed of Mo/γ-Al O and Ni/γ-Al O in the hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) reaction 2 3 2 3 of quinoline has been provided in this paper. The synergism factor decreases when the reaction temperature increases (280−340 ◦C). The synergetic effect leads to improve the hydrogenation activity for the stacked bed compared with the single Mo/γ-Al2 O3 bed, which may be attributed to the generation of hydrogen spillover on the Ni/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. Key words hydrogen spillover; synergetic effect; hydrodenitrogenation; NiMo catalyst 1. Introduction Co S , NiS and noble metals) to an acceptor phase (such as 9 8 x