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Study on ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization for crude oil
Yinhe Lin1, Li Feng2, Xuhao Li2
1Institute of Chemical Engineering, Yangtze Normal University, Chongqing 408100, China; Energy and Environment Engineering Institute, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 330000, China.
Abstract:
The existence of sulfur compounds in crude oil will bring many problems such as corrosion, catalyst poisoning and pollution to the petroleum processing process. Therefore, how to reduce the sulfur content as much as possible in the process of crude oil processing has become an important research topic in the petroleum processing industry. In this paper, ultrasonic-oxidative desulfurization is studied. The effects of reaction temperature, reaction time, amount of oxidant and demulsifier on desulfurization rate are investigated. And the effect of oxidative desulfurization and single oxidative desulfurization under ultrasonic treatment are compared. It is found that the addition of ultrasonic treatment can enhance the desulfurization effect of desulfurizer, the desulfurization efficiency can be increased by about 10% under ultrasonic treatment (100 W, 70 kHz); ultrasonic wave plays an auxiliary role in the system, it can promote heterogeneous reactions, improve the activity of oxidants, and promote the degradation of macromolecular compounds. Finally, physical desulfurization, chemical desulfurization and biological desulfurization technologies are compared.
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