Gasoline sulfur-free

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By proper choice of the conditions, these reactions can be controlled to give a balance between the cracking and dehydrogenation reactions the finished gasoline is a mixture of aromatics and isoparaffins of high octane number, very stable, and sulfur-free. 

To demonstrate the potential for application at even lower level sulfur fuels, the California reference gasoline was diluted by 10 times in a sulfur-free toluene solvent and re-analyzed. Results fiom this test are illustrated in the small insert of Fig. 11. The results show that this technique is capable of detecting and speciating sulfur at levels even lower than the 5 ppm total sulfur level. On the other hand, it is likely that regulations may mandate sulfur concentrations in fuels at even lower levels. The insert also illustrates that the dilution of the sample to 90 % toluene has little effect on the sulfur distribution, and clearly no hydrocarbon interference is observed. Loss of resolution of the 2 and 3-methylthiophene isomers (eluted just prior to 2 min) was observed due to a chromatographic solvent effect, but otherwise this did not significantly impact the results. 

The primary purpose of the first of the three stages (Stage 1) is conversion of all diolefins in the feed. The objective of the second stage is to saturate mono-olefins in the gasoline and sufficient unsaturates in the gas oil to make the oil thermally stable. The third stage is designed to desulfurize the gasoline portion, for example, to provide a sulfur-free concentrate for aromatics recovery. 

ConocoPhillips developed a special adsorbent S-Zorb, which is capable of removing hydrogen sulfide [288] but also the sulfur compounds of gasoline and diesel [109] in the presence of hydrogen. It released the sulfur-free organic compounds [109]. The process worked between 340 and 410 °C and in a pressure range of between 7 and 20 bar. The purified gasoline product contained only 10 ppm sulfur [109]. 

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The present infrastructure fuel for heavy vehicles is high sulfur diesel (now -500 ppm sulfur by weight) but this may change to a nearly sulfur-free diesel as proposed by the EPA. Beginning June 1, 2006, refiners must produce a diesel containing a maximum of 15 ppm sulfur (3). The fuel for this sector could also be a gasoline if such a fuel cell system could compete. 

By 2010, Tier 2 standards should further reduce vehicle emissions by extending regulations to larger SUVs and passenger vans. The use of gasoline with a lower sulfur content will also reduce emissions and it also makes it easier to build cars that can achieve further reductions. These standards should allow new U.S. cars to be extremely free of air pollutants. But, the Clean Air Act does not cover vehicle C02 emissions. Many new cars are called near zero emissions by their manufacturers and may have tailpipe emissions cleaner than some urban air. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will have almost no emissions besides some water vapor and would be much cleaner. 

The study of the desulfurization of model oils, predesulfurized diesel oil, and FCC-gasoline focused on extraction by halogen-free ILs (alkylsul-fates of alkylmethylimidazoliums) was reported in Ref. 45. The highest DBT partition coefficient was observed for [C4CiIm][C8S04j. After four extraction steps, sulfur concentration in the oil decreased from 500 to 10 ppm. 

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