The reaction network and kinetics of quinoline hydrodenitogenation (HDN) were studied in a flow microreactor packed with presulfided NiMo/A1 2 0 3 catalyst. Reactor temperatures were 330 to 420 0 C, and total pressure was either 3.55 or 7.0 MPa (500.or 1000 psig).Partial pressure of the reactant compound (quinoline or one of its hydrogenated derivatives) was 13.3 or 26.7 kPa, and reactant feed rates varied from 41.7 to 667 hr g catalyst/g-mol.The results indicated that the initial ring saturation reactions of quinoline are all reversible over a wide range of HDN conditions; also, saturation of the aromatic ring is thermodynamically (but not necessarily kinetically) more favorable than saturation of the heteroring. Nitrogen removal from quinoline occurred primarily through the decahydroquinoline intermediate, and propylcyclohexane was the major hydrocarbon product. The NiMo/Al?0 3 catalyst exhibited little selectivity for the reaction pathway of minimum hydrogen consumption, due to insufficient hydrogenolysis activity.Adsorptivities of the nitrogen compounds in the quinoline HDN network varied significantly. A Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic model, allowing for these different adsorptivities, was developed for the hydrogenolysis and nitrogen removal reactions. On active catalyst sites, the Py-tetrahydroquinoline and decahydroquinoline reaction intermediates appeared to adsorb about six times as strongly as the less basic aromatic amines (quinoline, Bz-tetrahydroquinoline, and o-propylaniline), which in turn showed an adsorption strength approximately four times greater than that of ammonia.