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AUTHOR
A. Escardino
Hydrocracking ofn-heptane. Study of NiO-MoO3catalysts supported on a HY ultrastable zeolite
The hydrocracking of n-heptane in the temperature range of 573 to 623 K and at 2.45 × 106 Pa pressure has been employed as a test reaction for the study of Ni—Mo bifunctional catalysts supported on a HY ultrastable zeolite. Two groups of catalysts containing 8 and 12 wt% of MoO3 and different amounts of NiO have been studied. In both series a maximum in the activity has been obtained for catalysts with a Ni/Mo atomic ratio of 0.8-1.0. The order of the impregnation of the oxides can have little influence on the activity. The most active catalyst has been obtained when the zeolite is exchanged with NH+4 ions until the Na+ level is less than 2% of the original and calcined at 823 K to obtain a…
Hydrocracking ofn-heptane with a NiO-MoO3/HYUS zeolite as catalyst. Kinetic study
The hydrocracking of n-heptane has been carried out in a fixed bed reactor at 2.45 MPa pressure and with a H2/n-heptane molar ratio of 5.0 using a 4 wt% NiO - 8 wt% MO3/HYUS zeolite as a catalyst. The W/F10 ratio was varied between 75.3 and 1624 kg · s/kmol at different reaction temperatures: 573, 588, 603 and 623 K. The kinetics of the reaction has been studied by two different procedures due to the slight deactivation of the catalyst. One of them uses the conversion and yield values extrapolated at time on stream to zero and the other uses a kinetic equation where the deactivation of the catalyst has been included. The experimental data were fit well by a pseudo-first order kinetic equati…