Microwave-Assisted Adsorptive Desulfurization of Model Diesel Fuel Using Synthesized Microporous Rare Earth Metal-Doped Zeolite Y

N. Salahudeen; A. S. Ahmed; A. H. Al-Muhtaseb; B. Y. Jibril; R. Al-Hajri; S. M. Waziri; M. Dauda; J. Al-Sabahi

doi:10.24200/tjer.vol12iss1pp44-52

Microwave-Assisted Adsorptive Desulfurization of Model Diesel Fuel Using Synthesized Microporous Rare Earth Metal-Doped Zeolite Y

N. Salahudeen, A. S. Ahmed, A. H. Al-Muhtaseb^*, B. Y. Jibril, R. Al-Hajri, S. M. Waziri, M. Dauda, J. Al-Sabahi

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The microwave-assisted adsorptive desulfurization of model fuel (thiophene in n-heptane) was investigated using a synthesized rare earth metal-doped zeolite Y (RE Y). Crystallinity of the synthesized zeolite was 89.5%, the silicon/aluminium (Si/Al) molar ratio was 5.2, the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area was 980.9 m²/g, and the pore volume and diameter was 0.3494 cm³/g and 1.425 nm, respectively. The results showed that the microwave reactor could be used to enhance the adsorptive desulfurization process with best efficiency of 75% at reaction conditions of 100 °C and 15 minutes. The high desulfurization effect was likely due to the higher efficiency impact of microwave energy in the interaction between sulfur in thiophene and HO-La(OSiAl).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	44-52
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Engineering Research
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24200/tjer.vol12iss1pp44-52
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Desulfurization
Diesel
Microwave
Thiophene
Zeolite RE Y

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