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Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry 21(2012)194–199

Weakening internal diffusion effect in selective hydrodesulfurization of


FCC gasoline by novel designed eggshell CoMoS/Al2O3 catalysts
Bin Liu, Yongming Chai∗ , Yajing Wang, Yunqi Liu, Chenguang Liu∗
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, Key Laboratory of Catalysis, China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC),
China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266555, Shandong, China
[ Manuscript received July 25, 2011; revised October 24, 2011 ]

Abstract
A simple method for preparation of presulfided eggshell CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts with sharp boundary is developed, through which the
eggshell thicknesses of Co and Mo could be easily regulated by controlling the impregnation time. According to the results characterized by
EDS, XRD, HRTEM and FT-IR of adsorbed CO, the active component structures, the nature and/or the amount of active sites on the eggshell
catalyst are similar to these on the uniform catalyst. The evaluation results of the catalytic performance in selective hydrodesulfurization (HDS)
of FCC gasoline show the presence of significant internal diffusion inhibition effect on HDS of S-compounds especially in the uniform catalyst.
Compared with uniform catalyst, the eggshell catalyst could remarkably reduce such an internal diffusion inhibition effect due to a shortened
diffusion path of the reactants, thus showing higher HDS activity and selectivity.
Key words
CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 ; eggshell catalyst; uniform catalyst; internal diffusion; hydrodesulfurization

1. Introduction The internal diffusion resistance within the pores of cata-


lysts can cause the reactant concentration and reaction temper-
ature gradient in the different region of the catalyst particle,
The increasing need for ultra-clean gasoline requires to and thus affected catalytic activity and selectivity [13−16].
drastically improve the efficiency of hydrotreating process. After studying the intra-particle diffusion effect on HDS
Besides major sulfur content, FCC gasoline also contains of dibenzothiophenic compounds with full-size and crushed
large content of olefins which are attributable to the high oc- NiMo/Al2 O3 hydrotreating catalysts, Chen et al. [11] pro-
tane number of the final product, however, the olefins usu- posed that significant intra-particle diffusion resistance could
ally be easily hydrogenated in the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) reduce the reaction rate of sulphur removal. In addition, we
units [1]. Therefore, preparation of catalysts with high activ- also prepared the eggshell MoS2 /Al2 O3 catalysts previously,
ity and selectivity in the HDS of FCC gasoline is a arguably which could remarkably reduce the internal diffusion resis-
preferable solution. In order to realized higher use efficiency tance and showed higher total sulfur removal activity [17].
of active components, the active components with eggshell However, conventional HDS catalysts are generally consti-
distribution supported on porous supports have been widely tuted of alumina-supported small MoS2 slabs promoted by
studied and applied in oxidation [2], Fischer-Tropsch synthe- cobalt. Hence, it is reasonably speculated that the catalysts
sis [3,4], hydrogenation [5,6], automotive exhaust purification with similar eggshell thicknesses of Co and Mo, which show
[7] and other fields [8,9]. Moreover, the eggshell distribution perfect synergetic effect, would display the best catalytic per-
has been theoretically and experimentally proved to eliminate formance in selective HDS reaction.
the adverse intra-particle mass transfer limitation effectively For the preparation of eggshell catalysts, various methods
in some cases [10−12]. have been developed, such as coating method [18], deposition

∗ Corresponding author. Tel: +86-532-86981716; Fax: +86-532-86981787; E-mail: cgliu.upc.edu.cn@gmail.com, ymchai.upc.edu.cn@gmail.com


This work was supported by grants from the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (“973” Program, 2010CB226905), the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 21006128 and 21106185), the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant
No. 20100133120007), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (ZR2011BQ002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central
Universities and the Graduate Innovation Project of China University of Petroleum (Grant No. CXZD11-06).

Copyright©2012, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60354-X
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precipitation [19−21], pressing-disk technique [16], spray- 2.3. Characterization of catalysts


ing method [22] and diffusion-adsorption [23−25]. How-
ever, some drawbacks also exist in the normal preparation A detailed description of all characterization techniques
of eggshell catalysts, including the long preparation period, have been provided elsewhere [17], and only a brief sum-
difficulty in control of the eggshell thickness and the content mary was given below. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD)
of the active component, the high solvent cost and the low analysis was carried out using a PANalytical’s X’Pert PRO
mechanical strength. diffractometer with Cu Kα radiation operated at 45 kV and
In this study, we described a novel method of preparing 40 mA. The line distribution profiles of Co and Mo in the
presulfided eggshell CoMoS/Al2 O3 catalysts and also evalu- cross section of the catalysts were measured by energy-
ated the activity and selectivity of the as-prepared catalysts in dispersion X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) on Hitachi S-4800. The
selective HDS of FCC gasoline in a fixed-bed high pressure high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)
micro-reactor, further revealing the effects of the reactant in- images of the samples were taken using a JEOL JEM-
ner diffusion on the catalysts performance. 2100 UHR microscope. IR spectra of adsorbed CO were
recorded on a Thermo Nicolet NEXUS IR spectrometer
2. Experimental equipped with a MCT detector.

2.1. Preparation of eggshell catalysts 2.4. Catalytic performance test

The catalytic tests for selective HDS of FCC gasoline over


CoMoS/γ-Al2O3 catalysts were prepared as follows. So-
the eggshell and uniform catalysts were carried out in a high-
lution A was obtained by dissolving 3.82 g ammonium tre-
pressure fixed-bed continuous flow reactor under the follow-
trathiomolybdate in 5 mL ethanolamine. A clear solution
ing conditions: hydrogen pressure of 2 MPa, temperature of
B of 2.4 g cobalt nitrate, 2.4 g ethylenediamine tetracetic
240 to 280 ◦ C, LHSV of 4 h−1 , hydrogen/feed volumetric ra-
acid and 3 mL ammonia water was obtained. Then, the co-
tio of 300/1 and catalyst loading of 10 mL.
impregnation solution C was got by adding solution B to solu- The hydrocarbon compositions of the reactant feeds (as
tion A under stirring. Next, the cylindrical γ-Al2 O3 extrudates seen in Table 1) and products were analyzed using a PONA-
(20 g) with an external diameter of 1.3 mm, an average length GC (Agilent 7890N). The total sulfur content was determined
of 3 mm, a BET surface area of 269 m2 /g, a pore volume by Analytikjenas elemental analysis (Multi EA 3100). The
of 0.64 cm3 /g and a BJH average pore diameter of 7.2 nm, HDS of S-compounds and conversion of olefin (HYD) were
were impregnated with solution C and extrudate samples were calculated as follows:
removed at various time intervals, which were subsequently
dried in an evaporator at 100 ◦ C for 30 min and finally calci- HDS (%) = (S f − S p)/Sf × 100
nated at 500 ◦ C under a nitrogen flow (100 mL/min) for 3 h. where, Sf and Sp represent the sulfur contents in the reactant
The average eggshell thickness was determined by scanning feeds and products, respectively.
electron microscopy (SEM) through examining the cross sec-
tion of five impregnated samples with random orientations. HYD (%) = (Of − Op )/Of × 100
The resulting CoMoS/γ-Al2O3 catalyst with eggshell thick- where, Of and Op are the olefin contents in reactant feeds and
ness of 0.2 mm was denoted as Egg-0.2 and the MoO3 and products, respectively.
CoO contents of the catalyst were 9.5 wt% and 2.5 wt%, re- The catalyst selectivity factor S was defined in our previ-
spectively. ous study [17] for easily comparing the selectivity of different
catalysts. A catalyst with a larger S value has higher se-
2.2. Reference catalyst lectivity, indicating a higher HDS rate with same olefin
saturation rate.
The uniform CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalyst was prepared by HDS selectivity index S = kHDS /kHYD
incipient wetness impregnation of γ-Al2 O3 extrudates (20 g)
with an aqueous solution containing 3.82 g ammonium tre- where, kHDS and kHYD are the apparent reaction rate constants
trathiomolybdate firstly dissolved in 5 mL ethylenediamine. for the HDS of total sulfur and HYD of olefins, respectively.
The impregnated catalyst was dried in an evaporator at Table 1. Properties of FCC gasoline
60 ◦ C for 6 h and calcinated at 250 ◦ C under nitrogen flow Properties Value
(100 mL/min) for 3 h. Subsequently the loading of Co was Density (g/cm3 , 15 ◦ C) 0.731
performed by incipient wetness method with a aqueous solu- Sulfur (μg/L) 901.2
tion of 2.4 g cobalt nitrate and 2.4 g ethylenediamine tetracetic Hydrocarbon (vol%)
acid, and finally calcinated at 500 ◦ C under a nitrogen flow Paraffins 4.04
Isoparaffins 41.48
(100 mL/min) for 3 h. The uniform catalyst with the MoO3 Olefins 30.78
and CoO contents of 9.5 wt% and 2.5 wt%, was denoted as Naphthenes 8.50
Hom-U. Aromatics 15.23
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3. Results and discussion tributions in the catalyst extrudates, and also the dimension-
less penetration across the particle is a function of impreg-
3.1. Eggshell catalysts nation time. Therefore, the eggshell thicknesses of Co and
Mo could be easily regulated by controlling the impregnation
Figure 1 showsthe effect of impregnation time on the im- time.
pregnation depth. Obviously, CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts with
sharp and deep eggshell profiles were prepared, and the im-
pregnation depth increased clearly with the prolonged impreg-
nation time. Meanwhile, in the impregnation process, the im-
pregnation depth is usually influenced by the impregnation
rate. According to the Washburn equation [3], the impreg-
nation rate was calculated from the slope of the linear fitting
of dimensionless penetration depth (ξ) against t1/2 data and
its value was about 0.016 mm/s1/2 .
Figure 2 shows the cross-sectional SEM images together
with Co and Mo line distribution profiles of Egg-0.2 and
Hom-U catalysts. Visibly, Co and Mo showed almost the
same distribution and mainly dispersed at surface layer over
Egg-0.2 catalyst, presenting an eggshell distribution. In com-
parison with that, Co and Mo distributions were very uniform
along the cross section of Hom-U catalyst.
According to the above analysis, we can conclude that the
diffusion rate is a key factor to determine the Co and Mo dis- Figure 1. Effect of impregnation time on impregnation depth

Figure 2. Co and Mo distributions of cross section of Egg-0.2 and Hom-U CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts extrudates by EDS analysis
Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry Vol. 21 No. 2 2012 197

3.2. Characterization of catalysts micrographs exhibited the well-known MoS2 slab-like struc-
ture. And the slab lengths and stacking numbers of MoS2
Figure 3 shows the XRD patterns of Egg-0.2 and Hom-U slabs of different catalysts were quantitatively compared
catalysts. All the samples displayed the similar characteristics based on at least ten micrographs including 250−300 slabs
of diffraction peaks to γ-Al2 O3 and no visible new diffraction taken from different parts of each catalyst, and the calculated
peaks were observed. It implied that Co and Mo species average layer number and length of supported MoS2 slabs are
were either completely amorphous or composed of small crys- summarized in Table 2. It was found that the predominant slab
tallites. Therefore, the active components were considered number and average length of MoS2 slabs of samples were
evenly distributed on the surface of the support, indicating that similar, and they did not show significant differences in the
one-step impregnation method to obtain presulfided eggshell dispersion or the morphology of MoS2 slabs.
CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts would not affect the dispersion of Table 2. Slab length and stacking number of the catalysts
the active components, which was also confirmed by HRTEM
Samples Average size (nm) Average stacking number
analysis. Egg-0.2 4.18 1.98
Hom-U 4.36 1.92

IR spectra of CO adsorbed on Egg-0.2 and Hom-U cat-


alysts are presented in Figure 5. Compared with the spec-
tra obtained after CO adsorbed on presulfided MoS2 /γ-Al2 O3
catalyst [17], a new band at 2061 cm−1 appeared in the spectra
of the catalysts, due to CO adsorption on either Mo or Co cen-
ters related to CoMoS phase. Travert et al. [26] ascribed the
band at 2061 cm−1 to CO interacting either with a Co atom
or with a 5-fold coordinated Mo atom adjacent to a Co. The
relative areas of bands at 2114 cm−1 and 2061 cm−1 , which
showed the information on the nature and relative number of
active sites because of CO selective adsorption on the coordi-
natively unsaturated sites (CUS), were almost the same for the
Figure 3. XRD patterns of Egg-0.2 and Hom-U CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts eggshell and uniform catalysts, indicating minor difference in
the number of active sites for Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts.
Representative TEM micrographs of catalysts Egg-0.2
Based on the above analysis, the method used for the
and Hom-U are shown in Figure 4. Accordingly, the
preparation of eggshell catalyst would not affect the distribu-
tion or morphology of the active components, as well as the
nature or relative number of the active sites. Thus, it could
be reasonably assumed that the active component structures
of the eggshell and uniform catalysts were similar, and the
differences in activity and/or selectivity could be mainly as-
cribed to the different distributions of the active components
in the catalysts.

Figure 4. TEM images of Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts Figure 5. IR spectra of CO adsorbed on Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts
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3.3. Catalytic performance test catalysts. Thus, the catalyst effectiveness factors, indicating
the intra-particle diffusion effect, were calculated according
The catalytic performances of presulfided Egg-0.2 and to the equation [11]: k = ηkintrinstic , where k and kintrinstic are
Hom-U CoMoS/γ-Al2 O3 catalysts are presented in Figure 6. the apparent and intrinsic reaction rate constants. Moreover,
With the increase of reaction temperatures, the total sul- intrinsic reaction rate constant was only related to the reaction
fur compounds removal activity increased noticeably. At temperature. So it was assumed that the eggshell and uni-
the same temperature, the eggshell catalyst (Egg-0.2) always form catalysts had the same intrinsic reaction rate constants
showed higher HDS conversion compared with that of the uni- under the same reaction conditions. The ratios of the catalyst
form catalyst (Hom-U), indicating that the substantial inter- effectiveness factors can be obtained by calculating the ratio
nal diffusion limitation in Hom-U catalyst may cause lower of the apparent reaction rate constants.
HDS activity. Similar results were also obtained by Chen In Table 3, the relative catalyst effectiveness factors for
et al. [11], who studied the intra-particle diffusion effect each group Ts removal over Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts
on HDS of dibenzothiophenic compounds with full-size and are presented. Taking into account of first-order kinetics for
crushed NiMo/Al2 O3 hydrotreating catalysts. Therefore, the each group Ts, the values given are the ratios of the appar-
eggshell catalyst with a thin layer of active material supported ent reaction rate constants of the eggshell and uniform cat-
on the outer surface of the catalyst particle could shorten the alysts, and Hom-U catalyst was considered as the reference
diffusion path of the reactant and thus weaken the substan- catalyst. As seen in Table 3, the values increased with the
tial internal diffusion limitation in the uniform catalyst, which increasing reaction temperature, showing that the eggshell
induced higher HDS activity. However, as seen in Figure 6, catalyst could effectively reduce the internal diffusion at
Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts showed almost the same olefins higher temperatures. That was because temperature had a
HYD conversion activity, implying that the internal diffusion greater impact on the intrinsic rate constant than that on the
resistance effect on HYD of olefins might be neglected. So, effectiveness diffusivity (De ), contributing to the increase of
it was possible to improve the HDS of gasoline by eggshell the Thiele modulus (φ), and thus led to much prominent in-
catalyst to obtain better selective HDS performance. ternal diffusion effect in uniform catalyst at higher temper-
atures. It was also observed that the highest values in Ta-
ble 3 were estimated for T, next appeared the values of MTs
followed by the values of DMTs, all of which were higher
than those of 3CTs and 4CTs showing the lowest values at
the same temperature. It could be explained as follows: the
intrinsic rate constant of different group Ts varied greatly,
while the differences in effectiveness diffusivity were mi-
nor because of relatively slight differences in molecular size
among all the Ts, and therefore the φ value of each group
Ts was mainly associated with the intrinsic rate constant of
different group Ts. That was to say, the Ts with higher sul-
fur removal rates, such as T and MTs, showed larger φ values
than those with larger steric effects, such as DMTs, 3CTs and
4CTs, indicating more severe internal diffusion effect, which
was consistent with the higher relative catalyst effectiveness
factor values. Hence, the eggshell catalyst could conspicu-
Figure 6. Catalytic performances of Egg-0.2 and Hom-U catalysts. Reaction
ously decrease the internal diffusion inhibition effect on HDS
conditions: hydrogen pressure of 2 MPa, gas to liquid ratio of 300 Nm3 /m3 ,
LHSV of 4 h−1 of Ts, and apparently the effect decreased in the order of
T>MTs>DMTs>3CTs>4CTs.
For FCC gasoline, it mainly contains sulfur compo-
Table 3. Relative catalyst effectiveness factors
nents of thiophenes [27,28] and the HDS activity of thio- for thiophenes hydrodesulfurization
phenes can be influenced by their structures, and therefore
t/ ◦ C
may be affected differently by internal diffusion. More- S-compounds
240 260 280
over, the effects of internal diffusion resistance on different T 1.451 1.591 1.802
structure thiophenes are still unclear. Based on the num- MTs 1.314 1.449 1.588
ber of substituent groups bonded to thiophene molecules, DMTs 1.195 1.365 1.479
all the thiophenes (Ts) could be divided into five groups: 3CTs 1.127 1.242 1.367
thiophene (T), methylthiophenes (MTs), dimethylthiophenes 4CTs 1.089 1.215 1.243
(DMTs), 3-carbons-alkylthiophenes (3CTs) and 4-carbons- Reaction conditions: hydrogen pressure of 2 MPa, gas to liquid ra-
alkylthiophenes (4CTs) [29]. We compared the catalyst tio of 300 Nm3 /m3 , LHSV of 4 h−1
effectiveness factors of each group Ts removal over the
eggshell and uniform catalysts, and it can be assumed that The catalyst selectivity factor (S) was calculated with a
the external transmission showed the same effect on the two ratio of the pseudo-second-order reaction rate constants for
Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry Vol. 21 No. 2 2012 199

the HDS of total sulfur to the pseudo-first-order reaction rate Acknowledgements


constants for the HYD of olefins. The catalyst with larger S This work was supported by grants from the Major State
value presented higher selectivity, which is shown in Figure 7. Basic Research Development Program of China (“973” Program,
It could be seen that the eggshell catalyst (Egg-0.2) always 2010CB226905), the National Natural Science Foundation of China
had higher S at different temperatures ranging from 240 ◦ C (Grant Nos. 21006128 and 21106185), the Research Fund for
the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No.
to 280 ◦ C, indicating significant intra-particle diffusion effect
20100133120007), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foun-
on selective HDS of FCC gasoline. At 260 ◦ C, the highest
dation of China (ZR2011BQ002), the Fundamental Research Funds
HDS selectivity index was obtained. That was because the for the Central Universities and the Graduate Innovation Project of
HYD reaction rate of olefins dramatically increased when the China University of Petroleum (Grant No. CXZD11-06).
temperature was higher than 240 ◦ C especially higher than
260 ◦ C [30], and the further enhanced HYD activity of olefins
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