Hydrodesulfurization of sulfur-containing polyaromatic compounds in light gas oil using noble metal catalysts

Further, we recently showed that the use of SiO2 or SiO2-Al2O3 as a support allows higher optimal Rh contents, making the Rh-based HDS catalysts even more promising. In brief, we obtained encouraging results, which showed for instance that the excellent properties of the noble metal catalysts in model HDS reactions are still observed during the HDS treatment of real feeds.