Regeneration method of deactivated residuum hydrotreatment catalyst
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a method for regenerating deactivated catalyst produced in petroleum refining process, in particular, it is a method for regenerating hydrotreatment catalyst deactivated by deposition of metal impurity of nickel, vanadium and iron, etc..
Background
During the hydrogenation reaction, the activity of the catalyst gradually decreases with the increase of the running time and eventually becomes inactive. There are many factors that cause catalyst deactivation, with coke deposition being the predominant one. Coke is often deposited on the catalyst surface to block the channels and cover the active sites of the catalyst, thereby reducing the reactivity. Deactivated spent catalyst is typically used after regeneration recovery activity is required, whereas spent catalyst that is not recovered by regeneration is discarded as solid waste. Most of the refinery catalyst waste originates from residuum hydrotreaters because the deactivated catalyst produced by such a unit, in addition to coke deposition, has severe plugging of orifices and channels due to progressive deposition of metallic (vanadium, nickel, iron, etc.) impurities, which can exceed 20% by weight of the spent catalyst. Although deactivation by coke can be eliminated by calcination treatment in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, deactivation by metal deposition clogging cannot be removed by the oxygen-containing atmosphere calcination method.
The recovery of high value metals from spent catalyst, while reasonably utilizing resources and having considerable economic benefits, clearly adds additional energy consumption. If the heavy oil hydrotreating waste catalyst can be directly regenerated, the heavy oil hydrotreating waste catalyst can be partially or completely replaced by a fresh catalyst, and the heavy oil hydrotreating waste catalyst has important practical significance in increasing economic benefits of refineries, reducing energy consumption and reducing environmental pollution.
The treatment of the waste catalyst is mainly focused on recycling metals in the waste catalyst, so that not only can the active metal resources be recycled, but also the pollution of the active metal resources to the environment can be reduced. However, the existing waste catalyst metal recovery technology has the common problems that the metal recovery rate is low, and the rest of metal and waste slag are discharged together, so that resource waste is formed to a certain extent and the environment is polluted. CN1258754a discloses a method for recovering metals from Co-Mo-based spent catalysts. The method comprises the steps of roasting, crushing, ammonolysis and filtering the waste catalyst, replacing cobalt in the complex with zinc, and then adding nitric acid to recycle MoO 3 The filter residue was dissolved with sulfuric acid and ammonium alum was separated with ammonium sulfate to remove most of the aluminum. CN1752021a discloses a method for producing vanadium pentoxide by using a vanadium-containing spent catalyst. The method is characterized in that after the deposited oil in the catalyst is removed, the catalyst is crushed, and sodium vanadate and sodium molybdate are recovered through oxidation and alkali treatment. And adding excessive ammonium chloride into the leaching solution to enable sodium vanadate to generate ammonium metavanadate, and decomposing at 800-850 ℃ to generate molten vanadium pentoxide.
Because heavy oil and residual oil contain a large amount of metal impurities such as nickel, vanadium, iron and the like, the heavy oil and residual oil are easy to deposit in a hydrotreating catalyst in the hydrotreating process, so that the hydrotreating catalyst is deactivated. At present, how to remove the deposited metal impurities in the deactivated residual oil hydrotreating catalyst and restore the pore structure and activity of the catalyst is still an important research topic.
CN102451774B discloses a method for regenerating an inactivated hydrotreating catalyst. The method comprises the following steps: the method for removing the metal impurities deposited in the deactivated catalyst comprises the steps of soaking the deactivated hydrotreating catalyst in alkaline solution, filtering, and then pickling the filtered solid. The method is that firstly, alkaline solution is used to treat the metal impurities of vanadium, nickel and iron to form precipitate, and then the removed metals of vanadium, nickel and iron are washed out from the catalyst pore channels by acid washing method, so as to recover the catalyst pore channels blocked by the metal deposition of vanadium, nickel and iron. The process may reduce the activity of the catalyst by losing part of the active metal during regeneration.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the defects in the prior art, the invention provides a regeneration method of an inactivated residual oil hydrotreating catalyst. The method fully utilizes the deposited metal impurities, so that the deposited metal impurities are used as active metals in the regenerated catalyst, the loss of the active metals is reduced, the pore structure of the catalyst is improved, and the catalyst has higher specific surface and pore volume, so that the regenerated catalyst has good activity and stability and can be equivalent to fresh catalyst.
The invention provides a regeneration method of an inactivated residual oil hydrotreating catalyst, which comprises the following steps:
(1) The inactivated residuum hydrotreatment catalyst is subjected to carbon burning and sulfur removal pretreatment,
(2) Carrying out ultrasonic treatment on the catalyst obtained in the step (1),
(3) Unsaturated impregnating or saturating the catalyst obtained in the step (2) with an acidic solution containing an organic phosphonic acid,
(4) Impregnating the catalyst obtained in the step (3) with an alkaline solution, then carrying out heat treatment in an ammonia-containing atmosphere, and drying and roasting to obtain the regenerated hydrotreating catalyst.
In the step (1), the pretreatment of burning charcoal and removing sulfur on the deactivated hydrotreating catalyst can be carried out by adopting a conventional method. The charcoal-burning sulfur removal treatment process can be carried out for 2-10 hours at 200-500 ℃ in an air atmosphere, preferably two-stage heat treatment is adopted, the first stage is constant-temperature roasting for 2-4 hours at 200-300 ℃, preferably 220-250 ℃, and the second stage is constant-temperature roasting for 2-4 hours at 350-450 ℃, preferably 400-430 ℃. The heating rate in the heat treatment process is 2-6 ℃/min.
In the step (2), the ultrasonic treatment process is as follows: and (3) placing the catalyst obtained in the step (1) into an ultrasonic generator, wherein the medium is water, and performing ultrasonic treatment under certain conditions. Wherein, the ultrasonic treatment conditions are as follows: the temperature is 20-70 ℃, the ultrasonic frequency is 10-150 KHz, the treatment time is 10-120 minutes, and the preferable conditions are as follows: the temperature is 25-50 ℃, the ultrasonic frequency is 15-80 KHz, and the treatment time is 20-80 minutes.
And (3) drying the catalyst obtained after the ultrasonic treatment in the step (2), and then carrying out the step (3). The drying conditions are as follows: drying at 50-120 ℃ for 1-10 hours.
In the step (3), the acid solution is a citric acid and/or oxalic acid solution, and the concentration of the acid solution is 2-20wt%, preferably 6-16wt%, and more preferably 8-16wt%; the organic phosphonic acid is one or more of amino trimethylene phosphonic acid, hydroxy ethylene diphosphonic acid, ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid, diamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid, diethylenetriamine pentamethylene phosphonic acid and hexamethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid. The concentration of the organic phosphonic acid is 5-25 wt%, preferably 6-20 wt%.
In the step (3), the amount of the unsaturated impregnating solution is more than 70% of the saturated water absorption amount of the catalyst obtained in the step (2). The amount of the saturated impregnating solution used in the saturated impregnation is 100% of the saturated water absorption of the catalyst obtained in the step (2). Step (3) is preferably saturated impregnation, i.e. isovolumetric impregnation.
The dipping in the step (3) can be processed by homogenization, or can be kept stand for a certain time and then the operation of the step (4) is carried out. Wherein the standing time is generally 0.5-3.0 hours.
In the step (4), the alkaline solution is one or more of sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium carbonate, potassium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate, preferably ammonium carbonate or sodium carbonate solution, and the concentration of the alkaline solution is 5wt% to 30wt%, preferably 10wt% to 25wt%.
In the step (4), the amount of the impregnating solution adopted in the impregnation is 30% -100% of the saturated water absorption amount of the catalyst obtained in the step (2).
In the step (4), after the catalyst obtained in the step (3) is impregnated with the alkaline solution, the catalyst may be allowed to stand for a period of time, which may be 0.5 to 3.0 hours.
In the step (4), the heat treatment is performed under a closed condition in the ammonia-containing atmosphere, wherein the ammonia-containing atmosphere is derived from ammonium bicarbonate and/or ammonia, the volume fraction of the ammonia is 5-15 wt%, and the balance can be at least one of inert gas, nitrogen, water vapor or carbon dioxide. The heat treatment conditions are as follows: the temperature is 50-100 ℃, and the treatment time is 0.3-3.0 hours.
In the step (4), after the heat treatment under an ammonia-containing atmosphere, the process of separation by filtration and washing is preferable before the drying and baking are performed. And (3) taking the saturated water absorption amount of the catalyst obtained in the step (2) as a basis, wherein the volume of the purified water washed each time accounts for 80% -120% of the saturated water absorption amount of the catalyst obtained in the step (2), and the washing times are 1-3.
In the step (4), the drying and roasting conditions are as follows: drying at 70-120 ℃ for 1-5 hours, and roasting at 450-650 ℃ for 1-5 hours.
The active metal lost in the regeneration process of the present invention can be replenished by impregnation to further restore the activity of the catalyst.
The residual oil hydrotreating catalyst of the present invention is mainly used in the hydrotreating process of heavy oil and residual oil. The residuum hydrotreatment catalyst generally takes alumina as a carrier, and VIB and/or VIII metals as hydrogenation active metal components. The VIB metal is at least one of Mo and W. The VIII group metal is at least one of Ni and Co. The deactivated residuum hydrotreating catalyst is a hydrotreating catalyst deactivated by deposition of coke and deposition of metal impurities such as nickel, vanadium, iron, etc. Deactivated hydrotreating catalysts typically contain deposited metal impurities such as vanadium, nickel, and iron. In the conventional deactivated residuum hydrotreating catalyst, the deposition amount of vanadium is 0.5wt% to 20.0wt%, the deposition amount of nickel is 0.5wt% to 10.0wt% and the deposition amount of iron is 0.2wt% to 5.0wt% based on the weight of the deactivated hydrotreating catalyst.
Compared with the prior art, the method has the following advantages:
after the carbon is burnt to remove sulfur, the method adopts an ultrasonic method to treat the iron-containing substances attached to the surfaces of the catalyst particles, reduces the load of the subsequent chemical treatment process, then firstly uses an acid solution containing organic phosphonic acid to impregnate, so that partial aggregated active metals, impurity nickel, iron and the like react and redistribute in catalyst pore channels, and is favorable for recovering and improving the activity of the catalyst in the subsequent improvement process, then, the alkali solution is impregnated and then treated in an ammonia-containing atmosphere, thereby promoting the redistribution of vanadium on the outer surface and near surface of the catalyst, improving the pore channel structure of the catalyst, further promoting the uniform distribution of the active metals, further regenerating the deactivated hydrotreating catalyst, and basically achieving the performance of a fresh agent.
The method fully utilizes the deposited metal impurities, so that the deposited metal impurities are used as active metals in the regenerated catalyst, the loss of the active metals is reduced, the pore structure of the catalyst is improved, and the catalyst has higher specific surface and pore volume, so that the regenerated catalyst has good activity and stability and can be equivalent to fresh catalyst.
The method has the advantages that the obtained regenerated catalyst can partially or completely replace fresh catalyst, thereby improving the utilization value of the deactivated catalyst and saving the cost of the catalyst.
Detailed Description
The method of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the following specific examples, but is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. The weight percent is the mass fraction.
Example 1
Taking 100g of an industrial operation post-deactivation residual oil hydrotreating catalyst which is NiMo/Al 2 O 3 I.e. the deactivator A-1. And (3) placing the deactivator A-1 into a high-temperature furnace for roasting heat treatment. The heating rate is 3 ℃/min, and the temperature is kept at 230 ℃ for 3 hours; and keeping the temperature at 420 ℃ for 3 hours to obtain the catalyst A-2. Will catalyzeThe catalyst A-2 is put into an ultrasonic generator, treated for 30 minutes at the temperature of 30 ℃ and the ultrasonic frequency of 50KHz by taking water as a medium, and dried for 90 minutes at the temperature of 100 ℃ in a drying oven to obtain the catalyst A-3. The catalyst A-3 was placed in a rotary pot, and was sprayed with a citric acid solution containing aminotrimethylene phosphonic acid at room temperature by an unsaturated impregnation method (80% of saturated water absorption) for 10 minutes and homogenized for 30 minutes, and then taken out and left to stand for 1 hour to obtain a catalyst A-4. The concentration of the aminotrimethylene phosphonic acid in the citric acid liquid containing the aminotrimethylene phosphonic acid is 10 weight percent, and the concentration of the citric acid is 9 weight percent. The catalyst A-4 was impregnated with an ammonium carbonate solution in an amount of 40% of the saturated water absorption amount of the catalyst A-3, the concentration of the ammonium carbonate solution was 15% by weight, and after standing at room temperature for 0.5 hours, it was further treated at 70℃for 0.8 hours under a mixed atmosphere of ammonia and nitrogen (ammonia volume concentration: 10%). Filtering and separating, and repeatedly washing the catalyst with the equal volume of purified water for 3 times to obtain the catalyst A-5. The generated precipitate and the washing liquid are collected and the metal component is recovered. And drying the catalyst A-5 at 80 ℃ for 2 hours, and then placing the catalyst A-5 into a high-temperature furnace for roasting. The temperature rising rate is 3 ℃/min, and the regenerant A-6 is obtained after the temperature is kept at 450 ℃ for 2 hours, and the physicochemical properties of the regenerant A-6 are shown in the table 1.
TABLE 1 physicochemical Properties of the catalyst
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Fresh agent A
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Deactivator A-1
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Regenerant A-6
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Specific surface area/m 2 ·g -1 |
186
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138
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191
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Pore volume/cm 3 ·g -1 |
0.48
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0.35
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0.52
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Composition/wt%
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Mo
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10.1
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7.8
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9.0
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Ni
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2.7
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4.3
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4.6
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V
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0
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1.9
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1.6
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Fe
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0
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0.72
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0.31 |
The activity evaluation experiment of the regenerated catalyst was performed on a 200mL residuum hydrotreater, and the physicochemical properties and reaction conditions of the raw materials used are shown in Table 2. The results of the catalyst activity evaluation after regeneration are shown in Table 3.
TABLE 2 raw oil Properties and reaction conditions
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Properties of (C)
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S/wt%
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2.3
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Ni/μg·g -1 |
29.1
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V/μg·g -1 |
48.6
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Reaction conditions
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Temperature/. Degree.C
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382
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pressure/MPa
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15.8
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Liquid hourly space velocity/h -1 |
1.0
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Hydrogen to oil volume ratio
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700 |
TABLE 3 evaluation of regenerated catalyst Activity
Removal rate
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Fresh agent A
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Regenerant A-6
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Regenerant DA-1
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Regenerant DA-2
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Regenerant DA-3
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HDS,%
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60.06
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59.33
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30.08
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49.67
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53.14
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HD(Ni+V),%
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69.81
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70.15
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39.54
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60.28
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62.36 |
As can be seen from tables 1-3, the regenerant A-6 pore structure obtained by the method of the present invention was better recovered. The activity evaluation result shows that the desulfurization and demetallization activity of the regenerant A-6 is superior to that of the regenerants DA-1, DA-2 and DA-3, and is equivalent to that of the fresh agent A.
Example 2
Taking 100g of an industrial operation post-deactivation residual oil hydrotreating catalyst which is NiMo/Al 2 O 3 I.e. the deactivator A-1. And (3) placing the deactivator A-1 into a high-temperature furnace for roasting heat treatment. The heating rate is 3 ℃/min, and the temperature is kept at 240 ℃ for 3 hours; after 4 hours of constant temperature of 410 ℃, catalyst B-2 is obtained. Putting the catalyst B-2 into an ultrasonic generator, treating the catalyst B-2 with water as a medium at 40 ℃ and ultrasonic frequency of 60KHz for 45 minutes, and drying the catalyst B-3 in a drying oven at 100 ℃ for 90 minutes to obtain the catalyst B-3. The catalyst B-3 was placed in a rotary pot, and was sprayed with an oxalic acid solution containing ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid at room temperature by an unsaturated impregnation method (90% of saturated water absorption) for 10 minutes and homogenized for 30 minutes, and then taken out and left to stand for 1 hour to obtain the catalyst B-4. In the oxalic acid solution containing ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid, the content of ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid is 15wt percent, and the content of oxalic acid is 10wt percent. Putting the catalyst B-3 into an equal volume of catalyst B-4 impregnated with a sodium carbonate solution, wherein the dosage of the sodium carbonate solution is 35% of the saturated water absorption capacity of the catalyst B-3, the concentration of the sodium carbonate solution is 12% by weight, standing for 1 hour at room temperature, then treating for 1.5 hours at 60 ℃ under the mixed atmosphere of ammonia and nitrogen (the volume concentration of ammonia is 8%), filtering and separating, and repeatedly washing the catalyst with equal volume of purified water for 3 times to obtain the catalyst B-5. The generated precipitate and the washing liquid are collected and the metal component is recovered. And drying the catalyst B-5 at 80 ℃ for 2 hours, and then placing the catalyst B-5 into a high-temperature furnace for roasting. The temperature rising rate is 3 ℃/min, and the regenerant B-6 is obtained after the temperature is kept at 450 ℃ for 2 hours, and the physicochemical properties of the regenerant B-6 are shown in Table 4.
TABLE 4 physicochemical Properties of the catalyst
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Fresh agent A
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Deactivator A-1
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Regenerant B-6
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Specific surface area/m 2 ·g -1 |
186
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138
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195
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Pore volume/cm 3 ·g -1 |
0.48
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0.35
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0.53
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Composition/wt%
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Mo
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10.1
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7.8
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8.6
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Ni
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2.7
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4.3
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4.6
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V
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0
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1.9
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1.5
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Fe
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0
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0.72
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0.29 |
The activity evaluation experiment of the regenerated catalyst was performed on a 200mL residuum hydrotreater, and the physicochemical properties and reaction conditions of the raw materials used are shown in Table 5. The results of the catalyst activity evaluation after regeneration are shown in Table 3.
TABLE 5 raw oil Properties and reaction conditions
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Properties of (C)
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S/wt%
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2.8
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Ni/μg·g -1 |
25.3
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V/μg·g -1 |
43.6
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Reaction conditions
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Temperature/. Degree.C
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385
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pressure/MPa
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16.0
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Liquid hourly space velocity/h -1 |
1.0
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Hydrogen to oil volume ratio
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700 |
TABLE 6 evaluation of regenerated catalyst Activity
Removal rate
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Fresh agent A
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Regenerant B-6
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HDS,%
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62.54
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61.92
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HD(Ni+V),%
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70.03
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71.81 |
As can be seen from tables 4-6, the pore structure of regenerant B-6 obtained by the method of the present invention was better recovered. The activity evaluation result shows that the desulfurization and demetallization activity of the regenerant B-6 is equivalent to that of the fresh agent A.
Comparative example 1
Catalyst A-4 of example 1 was repeatedly washed 3 times with an equal volume of purified water to obtain a catalyst. Drying at 80 deg.c for 2 hr, and roasting in a high temperature furnace. The temperature rising rate is 3 ℃/min, and the regenerant DA-1 is obtained after the temperature is kept at 450 ℃ for 2 hours. The physicochemical properties of the starting materials used and the reaction conditions are shown in Table 2. The results of the catalyst activity evaluation after regeneration are shown in Table 3.
Comparative example 2
In comparison with example 1, the citric acid solution containing aminotrimethylene phosphonic acid was replaced with an aminotrimethylene phosphonic acid solution containing no citric acid to obtain a regenerant DA-2. The physicochemical properties of the starting materials used and the reaction conditions are shown in Table 2. The results of the catalyst activity evaluation after regeneration are shown in Table 3.
Comparative example 3
Compared with example 1, the ammonia-containing gas heat treatment process was omitted after immersing and standing in the ammonium carbonate solution, to obtain a regenerant DA-3. The physicochemical properties of the starting materials used and the reaction conditions are shown in Table 2. The results of the catalyst activity evaluation after regeneration are shown in Table 3.
Example 3
This example is a catalyst stability evaluation test.
The evaluation results after 1200 hours of operation using the same raw materials and operating conditions (raw materials and operating conditions are shown in Table 2) for the fresh agent A and the catalyst A-6 are shown in Table 7.
TABLE 7 evaluation results of stability of catalysts
Removal rate
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Fresh agent A
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Regenerant A-6
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HDS,%
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59.87
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59.01
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HD(Ni+V),%
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68.79
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69.81 |
As can be seen from Table 7, the regenerant A-6 obtained by the method of the present invention was comparable to fresh agent A in desulfurization and demetallization activity after 1200 hours of operation.