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Title: Intrinsic kinetics of the hydrodemetallation of V- and Ni-porphyrin over sulfided CoMo/Al sub 2 O sub 3 catalyst

Conference · · American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA)
OSTI ID:5086584
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  1. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA)

A number of investigators have studied the kinetics of the metal removal rate over commercial CoMo/Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} catalysts with various crudes and resid feedstocks. The kinetic order of hydrodemetallization (HDM) with respect to the metal concentration has been reported as first order, fractional 1.5 order and second order. Hung and Wei have studied the kinetics of HDM in a batch reactor system over a non-sulfided commercial CoMo/Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} catalyst, using pure metal-porphyrin compounds. They reported that the HDM reaction order was close to 0.5 but varied with the operating temperature and pressure. Agrawal and Wei, in flow microreactor studies of the same compounds, observed first-order kinetics.

OSTI ID:
5086584
Report Number(s):
CONF-8704349-; CODEN: ACPCA
Journal Information:
American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA), Vol. 32:2; Conference: Symposium on advances in resid upgrading, Denver, CO (USA), 5-10 Apr 1987; ISSN 0569-3799
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English