Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10142583 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2018 | 41 Pages |
Abstract
In this study, oxidative-adsorptive desulfurization technology was applied to raw diesel containing 1480.4â¯ppm sulfur. For oxidative desulfurization, the oxidant and catalyst were hydrogen peroxide and phosphotungstic acid, respectively. Two types of continuously mixed reactors: (1) continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and (2) in-line mixer were evaluated under varying reaction temperature, mixing speed and diesel flow rate. For the in-line mixer system, the mixer speed and the flow rates for diesel and oxidant were modeled and optimized using Box-Behnken design of the response surface methodology. Optimization of process parameters resulted in sulfur removal of 85.90% at 18,000â¯rpm mixer speed, 500â¯mLâ¯minâ1 diesel flow rate and 300â¯mLâ¯minâ1 H2O2 flow rate. In the subsequent adsorptive desulfurization experiments, continuous fixed-bed adsorption using alumina removed 92.81% sulfur from treated diesel fuel thereby producing low-sulfur diesel that is within the allowable limit of Euro IV standard.
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Authors
Mark Daniel G. de Luna, Cybelle M. Futalan, Raymond A. Dayrit, Angelo Earvin S. Choi, Meng-Wei Wan,