Desulfurization of Transportation Fuels with Zeolites Under Ambient Conditions

Author:

Yang Ralph T.1,Hernández-Maldonado Arturo J.1,Yang Frances H.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Abstract

Deep desulfurization of transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels) is being mandated by U.S. and foreign governments and is also needed for future fuel cell applications. However, it is extremely difficult and costly to achieve with current technology, which requires catalytic reactors operated at high pressure and temperature. We show that Cu + and Ag + zeolite Y can adsorb sulfur compounds from commercial fuels selectively and with high sulfur capacities (by π complexation) at ambient temperature and pressure. Thus, the sulfur content was reduced from 430 to <0.2 parts per million by weight in a commercial diesel at a sorbent capacity of 34 cubic centimeters of clean diesel produced per gram of sorbent. This sulfur selectivity and capacity are orders of magnitude higher than those obtained by previously known sorbents.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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5. The calculations were performed at the Hartree-Fock and density functional theory level using effective core potentials ( 11 ). The restricted Hartree-Fock theory at the LanL2DZ level basis set ( 12 ) was used to determine the geometries and the adsorption bonding energies ( 8 ). Natural bond orbital analysis at the B3LYP/LanL2DZ level was used for studying the electron density distribution of the adsorption system ( 8 ). A cluster model was used to represent zeolite framework structure to which Ag + and Cu + cations were bonded.

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