Hydrodesulfurization of crude oil over Co-Mo catalysts in a slurry reactor

Abstract

In this paper, hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of crude oil in the three-phase slurry reactor over cobalt – molybdenum catalyst (CoMo / ɣ- AL2O3) is studied. Effects of space velocity and length of reactor on the conversion rate and catalyst effectiveness for HDS process have been investigated. Kinetics of the reaction rate for this process is primarily and Arrhenius equation for the rate constant is used. The results show that the effectiveness factor for catalyst along the length of reactor is decreased about 83%. By increasing liquid velocity from 4 to 10 1/s, the conversion of sulfur components is decreased about 22% at the temperature of 523 K. At the same temperature, by increasing liquid velocity from 36 to 84 1/s conversion is reduced to 25%. The results of the variation of the dimensionless reaction rate against conversion show that with increasing conversion, the reaction rate decreases and the reaction is stopped when the conversion is 100%.