Removal of sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen from heavy gas oils is affected by the chemical composition of supported molybdate catalysts. Cobalt and nickel, when added to these catalysts, have a promoting effect on these reactions. However, the relative rates always follow the same trend; that is, the hydrodesulfurization is the fastest, followed by hydrodenitrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation.
CONCLUSIONS AND SIGNIFICANCERelative rates of S, N, and 0 removal from a heavy gas ing species which may be products of reactions between oil are in qualitative agreement with the C-S, C-N, and air and the feed are not included. These observations are C-0 bond strengths; thus, the rate of hydrodesulfurization supported by a number of mechanistic surface phenomena (HDS) is highest, followed by hydrodenitrogenation and other thermochemical considerations.
(HDN) and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO). The comparison isThe presence of carbonaceous deposits on the catalyst based on heterocyclic compounds; that is, the 0 contain-surface had little effect on these trends. N and 0 accumulate in the deposits because N and 0 containing ical Engineers, 1979.heterocyclic compounds resist the catalytic reactions. De-