Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9): 1543-1551.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(18)63085-2

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Ordered mesoporous Cu-ZnO-Al2O3 adsorbents for reactive adsorption desulfurization with enhanced sulfur saturation capacity

Yaqing Liua, Yuan Panb, Hongying Wanga, Yunqi Liua, Chenguang Liua   

  1. a State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, Key Laboratory of Catalysis, China National Petroleum Corporation(CNPC), China University of Petroleum(East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China;
    b Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2018-03-10 Revised:2018-04-16 Online:2018-09-18 Published:2018-07-19
  • Contact: 10.1016/S1872-2067(18)63085-2
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    This work was support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21676300).

Abstract:

To enhance sulfur adsorption and reactive activity, ordered mesoporous Cu-ZnO-Al2O3 adsorbents were prepared by a novel one-pot evaporation-induced self-assembly strategy using P123 as a structure-directing agent and ethanol as the solvent for reactive adsorption desulfurization. The metal oxide precursor molecules around P123 micellized, and self-assembly simultaneously occurred during evaporation from an ethanol solution at 60℃, leading to the formation of the p6mm hexagonal symmetry mesoporous structure. Characterization results prove that the Cu-ZnO-Al2O3 adsorbents possess an ordered mesoporous structure with high thermal stability, large surface area (386-226 m2/g), large pore volume (0.60-0.46 cm3/g), and good dispersion of ZnO and Cu, which is beneficial for transforming S-compounds to ZnO. The sulfur saturation capacity of the ordered-mesoporous-structure Cu-ZnO-Al2O3 adsorbents is larger (49.4 mg/g) than that of the unordered mesoporous structure (13.5 mg/g).

Key words: Cu-ZnO-Al2O3, Ordered mesoporous structure, One-pot evaporation-induced self-assembly, Reactive adsorption desulfurization, Sulfur saturation capacity