Hydrotreating nitrogen

Problems sulfur and nitrogen transferred to the products (and coke) Solutions feed hydrotreating, reduction of S, N, Conradson carbon, metals Results higher quality products reduction in pollution better yields of valuable products reduced post-treatment... 

Fluid catalytic cracking units present formidable emission control problems. Contaminants are present in both reactor product gas and regenerator flue gas. The reactor product contains hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and cyanides, plus combined sulfur and nitrogen in the liquid products. Hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and cyanides are handled as part of the overall refinery waste water cleanup. The combined sulfur and nitrogen may be removed by hydrotreating. 

Hydrotreating is a hydrogen-consuming process primarily used to reduce or remove impurities such as sulfur, nitrogen, and some trace metals from the feeds. It also stabilizes the feed hy saturating olefrnic compounds. 

Carbazole is a non-basic nitrogen compound, whose removal via hydrotreating is limited by its low reactivity. The removal of nitrogen by hydrotreatment involves a number of steps that take place on the catalyst surface. The weak interaction of neutral nitrogen compounds with catalysts precludes carbazole and its derivatives from being denitro-genated and makes them the most recalcitrant components in HDN of gas oils [308], In fact, it has been found that the nitrogen content of hydrotreated gas oil from Athabasca bitumen was composed primarily of alkyl carbazoles [309],... 

Jokuty, P., and Gray, M. R., Resistant Nitrogen Compounds in Hydrotreated Gas Oil From Athabasca, bitumen,. Energy Fuels, 1991. 5 pp. 791-795. 

The increasing interest for HDN reaction is due to environmental push and business pull. The degradation of nitrogen compounds to ammonia and hydrocarbons consumes more hydrogen than any other hydrotreating reaction, and therefore any improvement in the efficiency of HDN catalysis would produce an immediate business advantage. 

ISAL A hydrotreating process for removing sulfur and nitrogen compounds from petroleum fractions without reducing their octane values. Developed by Intevep SA, the research and technology arm of Venezuela s state petroleum company PDVSA. A proprietary zeolite catalyst first saturates the olefins and then isomerizes them to higher octane-value compounds. 

Trickle-bed reactors are used in catalytic hydrotreating (reaction with H2) of petroleum fractions to remove sulfur (hydrodesulfurization), nitrogen (hydrodenitrogena-tion), and metals (hydrodemetallization), as well as in catalytic hydrocracking of petroleum fractions, and other catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation processes. An example of the first is the reaction in which a sulfur compound is represented by diben-zothiophene (Ring and Missen, 1989), and a molybdate catalyst, based, for example, on cobalt molybdate, is used ... 

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