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Hydroprocessing of light cycle oil (LCO) over sulfided NiMo supported on hierarchical mesoporous H-ZSM-5 catalyst

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The effect of temperature, pressure and H2/feed ratio was studied for hydroprocessing of light cycle oil (LCO) over sulfided NiMo supported on mesoporous H-ZSM-5. Mesoporous H-ZSM-5 catalyst used in this study was synthesized by hydrothermal method and ion exchange. The catalyst was characterized by N2 sorption studies, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy techniques. Polyaromatic hydrocarbons were reduced from 64 to 10 wt% at 300 °C and 60 bar. Mono-aromatics yield was increased to 60 wt% at higher temperature (380 °C). Properties like viscosity, cetane index, distillation (95% vol. recovery) and density of hydroprocessed LCO products at 380 °C, make it suitable for addition to diesel pool. At severe reaction conditions (380 °C and 70 bar), °API and cetane index values increased, while viscosity and density decreased. After 65 h of continuous run, polyaromatic hydrocarbons yield were increasing due to the loss of catalytic activity.

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A. R. thanks, CSIR India for GATE-SRF fellowship New Delhi, India and G. E. thanks to NAM fellowship. Authors are also thankful to hydroprocessing team and analytical science division for their experimental and analytical support.

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  1. Aditya Rai and Gloria Escalona have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India

    Aditya Rai, Gloria Escalona & Anil K. Sinha

  2. AcSIR-Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Chennai, India

    Aditya Rai & Anil K. Sinha

  3. Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela

    Gloria Escalona & Paulino Betancourt

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Rai, A., Escalona, G., Betancourt, P. et al. Hydroprocessing of light cycle oil (LCO) over sulfided NiMo supported on hierarchical mesoporous H-ZSM-5 catalyst. Reac Kinet Mech Cat 125, 1099–1112 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-018-1423-z

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