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Regulating sulfur removal efficiency of fuels by Lewis acidity of ionic liquids

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It is urgent to develop a new deep desulfurization process of fuels as the environmental pollution increases seriously. In this work, a series of Lewis acidic ionic liquids (ILs) [C 34 MPy]Cl/nZnCl2 (n=1, 1.5, 2, 3) were synthesized and used in extraction and catalytic oxidative desulfurization (ECOD) of the fuels. The effects of the Lewis acidity of ILs, the molar ratio of H2O2/sulfur, temperatures, and different substrates including dibenzothiophene (DBT), benzothiophene (BT) and thiophene (TS), on sulfur removal were investigated. The results indicated that [C 34 MPy]Cl/3ZnCl2 presented near 100% DBT removal of model oil under conditions of 323 K, H2O2/DBT molar ratio 6:1. Kinetics for the removal of DBT, BT and TS by the [C 34 MPy]Cl/3ZnCl2-H2O2 system at 323 K is first-order with the apparent rate constants of 1.1348, 0.2226 and 0.0609 h-1, and the calculated apparent activation energies for DBT, BT and TS were 61.13, 60.66, and 68.14 kJ/mol from 298 to 308 K, respectively. After six cycles of the regenerated [CC 34 MPy]Cl/3ZnCl2, the sulfur removal had a slight decrease. [CC 34 MPy]Cl/3ZnCl2 showed a good desulfurization performance under optimal conditions.

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yi Nie, Hongshuai Gao, Xiangping Zhang & Suojiang Zhang

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yi Nie, Hongshuai Gao, Xiangping Zhang & Suojiang Zhang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Yi Nie, Hongshuai Gao, Xiangping Zhang & Suojiang Zhang

  4. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, China

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Nie, Y., Dong, Y., Gao, H. et al. Regulating sulfur removal efficiency of fuels by Lewis acidity of ionic liquids. Sci. China Chem. 59, 526–531 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-016-5563-6

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