Kinetics of Triphase Extractive Oxidative Desulfurization of Benzothiophene with Molecular Oxygen Catalyzed by HPA-5

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Claußnitzer, Johannes ; Bertleff, Benjamin ; Korth, Wolfgang ; Albert, Jakob ; Wasserscheid, Peter ; Jess, Andreas:
Kinetics of Triphase Extractive Oxidative Desulfurization of Benzothiophene with Molecular Oxygen Catalyzed by HPA-5.
In: Chemical Engineering & Technology. Vol. 43 (2020) Issue 3 . - pp. 465-475.
ISSN 1521-4125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ceat.201900448

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The triphasic aerobic extractive desulfurization of benzothiophene (BT) using an aqueous H8PV5Mo7O40 solution as catalyst and O2 as oxidant was investigated. A time-resolved analysis of all reaction products in the gas, organic and aqueous phase, is given. The organic sulfur in BT is mainly converted to sulfuric acid. Mass transport limitations can be excluded. The reaction orders are 1 with regard to BT, and 0.5 both for HPA-5 and O2. Calculated data derived from this mechanism with a power law kinetic approach show good agreement to the experimental data for conversions below 60 \%. At higher BT conversions, significant deviations are found, suggesting that acidic products formed in the BT oxidation affect the catalyst and therefore the initial kinetics of the BT oxidation.