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Facile regeneration and modification of industrial used chelating resin for fuel oil desulfurization

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A systematic study was carried out on the preparation and application of metal-loaded polypropylene-divinyl benzene resin for dibenzothiophene adsorption. Amidoxime groups over used industrial polypropylene-divinyl benzene chelating resin were regenerated through a chemical graft reaction, and the highest regeneration efficiency of about 90 % can be reached. Different metal phases (Zn, Ni, Cu, Fe, Bi, and Ag) were introduced to the regenerated resin via an incipient-wetness impregnation method to examine their desulfurization efficiency. The desulfurization efficiency of ca. 86.3 % can be gained over Zn-loaded resin (Zn-R) under optimized reaction conditions. The order of different desulfurization influencing factors was further verified according to the orthogonal experiments, that is, desulfurization temperature > metal loading content > space velocity > organic sulfur concentration. Distribution of adsorption products was analyzed, and the results reveal that the metal-modified resins can effectively remove the organic sulfur compounds in diesel oil without loss of its octane value. The desulfurization effect of metal-contained resins is primary determined by the π-complexation.

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Financial supports of the National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC0204201), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21477095, 21677114), the Industrial Research Project of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province (2016GY-243), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (2014M550498), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, and the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2015JM2047). The authors are also grateful to the reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments.

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  2. ENFI Equipment Company, China ENFI Engineering Corporation, Beijing, 100038, People’s Republic of China

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He, C., Xu, B., Chen, S. et al. Facile regeneration and modification of industrial used chelating resin for fuel oil desulfurization. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 14, 165–176 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-016-1135-8

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