Environmentally friendly efficient coupling of n-heptane by sulfated tri-component metal oxides in slurry bubble column reactor

SO42−/MxOy is of the greatest interest in solid catalysts and green catalysts. Slurry bubble column reactors are of considerable interest in industrial processes and various biochemical processes. The cetane number (CN) has widely used diesel fuel quality parameter related to the ignition delay time (and combustion quality) of a fuel. CN improvement of diesel fuels is a difficult task that refiners will face in the near future. For that purpose, the tests were designed in which n-heptane is used as the reactant in the air or ozone atmosphere at room temperature (RT) and local atmospheric pressure (LAP) using different catalysts of sulfated tri-component metal oxides SO42−/Fe2O3-TiO2-SnO2 (SFTSn) and SO42−/MnO2-TiO2-SnO2 (SMTSn) in slurry bubble column reactor. The products distribution was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method and the results show that the relative selectivity of long linear alkane (C12-C28) reaches the maximum (87.330%) when SMTSn is used as catalyst in flow air at 60 min. Diesel fuel components with higher cetane numbers can be easily obtained from this study.