TY - GEN
T1 - Desulfurization of liquid phase jet-A fuel by selective adsorption at room temperature
AU - Xu, Xinhai
AU - Zhang, Shuyang
AU - Li, Peiwen
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - To produce syngas from reforming of jet fuels for fuel-cell-based auxiliary power units, it is necessary to keep the fuel ultraclean of sulfur. Several Ni-Ce based adsorbents for sulfur cleaning from jet-A fuel under room temperature were developed and tested in fixed bed reactors in this work. The adsorbent preparation procedure and calcination atmosphere were optimized for the highest adsorbent desulfurization capacity. Desulfurization performance due to the ratio of fixed bed column diameter (Dc) and adsorbent particle size (Dp) and liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) were also investigated in a factorial experiment. The adsorbents can effectively remove sulfur in Jet- A fuel from over 1000 ppmw level to below 30 ppmw. The highest sulfur adsorption capacity achieved is 2.44 mg S/g adsorbent at the breakthrough point of 30 ppmw. To effectively scale up the fixed bed reactor, the LHSV should be kept lower than 0.65 and the Dc/Dp needs to be larger than 124.
AB - To produce syngas from reforming of jet fuels for fuel-cell-based auxiliary power units, it is necessary to keep the fuel ultraclean of sulfur. Several Ni-Ce based adsorbents for sulfur cleaning from jet-A fuel under room temperature were developed and tested in fixed bed reactors in this work. The adsorbent preparation procedure and calcination atmosphere were optimized for the highest adsorbent desulfurization capacity. Desulfurization performance due to the ratio of fixed bed column diameter (Dc) and adsorbent particle size (Dp) and liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) were also investigated in a factorial experiment. The adsorbents can effectively remove sulfur in Jet- A fuel from over 1000 ppmw level to below 30 ppmw. The highest sulfur adsorption capacity achieved is 2.44 mg S/g adsorbent at the breakthrough point of 30 ppmw. To effectively scale up the fixed bed reactor, the LHSV should be kept lower than 0.65 and the Dc/Dp needs to be larger than 124.
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U2 - 10.1115/FuelCell2013-18100
DO - 10.1115/FuelCell2013-18100
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892729136
SN - 9780791855522
T3 - ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Eng. and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2013
BT - ASME 2013 11th Int. Conf. on Fuel Cell Science, Eng. and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. and the ASME 2013 7th Int. Conf. on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2013
T2 - ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, FUELCELL 2013 Collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability
Y2 - 14 July 2013 through 19 July 2013
ER -