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In this work, we report a statistically significant increase in the rates of direct C–S bond scission of dibenzothiophene when co-reactants such as naphthalene, quinoline, and indole are present during its hydrodesulfurization over a Ni–MoS2/γ-Al2O3 catalyst. The competitive adsorption of these compounds on the same active sites has usually been associated with inhibitory effects of sulfur elimination. However, we carried out statistically designed experiments at temperatures between 260 and 300 °C, concentrations of dibenzothiophene between 1.0 and 3.7 wt%, and concentrations of the co-reactants between 0.13 and 0.52 wt%, and observed that the kinetic constant of the direct desulfurization pathway can increase up to 200% when either naphthalene, indole, or quinoline is co-fed to the reaction system at 260 °C and 3.7 wt% of dibenzothiophene. Therefore, the classical paradigm that aromatics and nitrogen heterocycles always inhibit hydrodesulfurization needs reexamination.

The dry reforming of methane is a promising technology for the abatement of CH4 and CO2. Solid solution Ni–La oxide catalysts are characterized by their long–term stability (100h) when tested at full conversion. The kinetics of dry reforming over this type of catalysts has been studied using both power law and Langmuir–Hinshelwood based approaches. However, these studies typically deal with fitting the net CH4 rate hence disregarding competing and parallel surface processes and the different possible configurations of the active surface. In this work, we synthesized a solid solution Ni–La oxide catalyst and tested six Langmuir–Hinshelwood mechanisms considering both single and dual active sites for assessing the kinetics of dry reforming and the competing reverse water gas shift reaction and investigated the performance of the derived kinetic models. In doing this, it was found that: (1) all the net rates were better fitted by a single–site model that considered that the first C–H bond cleavage in methane occurred over a metal−oxygen pair site; (2) this model predicted the existence of a nearly saturated nickel surface with chemisorbed oxygen adatoms derived from the dissociation of CO2; (3) the dissociation of CO2 can either be an inhibitory or an irrelevant step, and it can also modify the apparent activation energy for CH4 activation. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the dry reforming reaction's kinetics and provide a robust kinetic model for the design and scale–up of the process.

The inhibition effect of olefins on the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and hydrogenation of olefins (HYDO) of a model FCC naphtha over CoMo-S/γ-Al2O3 catalysts was studied. Particularly, the inhibition effect of linear; 1-octene, cyclic; cyclohexene, and branched; 2,4,4-trimethylpentenes (TMPs) and 2,5-dimethyl-2,4-hexadiene (2,4C6diene), olefins on the HDS of 2-methylthiophene was analyzed. All three kinds of olefins inhibited HDS. The degree of inhibition depended on both the type of olefin and on its concentration in the reaction feed. The inhibition effect was strongest for the cyclic olefin. In addition, the inhibition effect of the different types of olefins on their hydrogenation (HYDO) under an HDS atmosphere was also examined. Again, the cyclic olefin exerted the strongest inhibition effect on the HYDO reaction. In general, the degree of the inhibition effect on HDS and HYDO was found to decrease thanks to steric hindrance effects.

The effect of the milk-whey relation over the physicochemical properties (pH, total acidity, soluble solids and syneresis) and rheology (deformation rate, apparent viscosity, flow behavior index and consistency index) of a fermented dairy drink was studied. A completely randomized experimental design of two factors: percentage of whey (0, 5, 10 and 15% w/w) and type of milk (whole and skim) was used. The significance was determined using an analysis of variance (ANOVA). All properties analyzed except pH had statistically significant differences (P

The work presents a kinetic study of the simultaneous hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene and hydrogenation of aromatics with different chemical structures. This kind of studies are seldom reported, since many authors deal almost exclusively with hydrodesulfurization. Furthermore, most of these authors employ power rate laws for kinetic modelling neglecting a rigorous analysis of the thermodynamic parameters of the reactions; namely, adsorption enthalpies and entropies.Considering this fact, we decided to base our kinetic modelling on a Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW) formalism testing the hypothesis of the existence of one or two different catalytic sites for hydrogenation and desulfurization. The consistency of the aforementioned thermodynamic parameters was assessed considering the criteria postulated by Boudart.Our results allowed concluding that a LHHW model considering two actives sites provides a statically satisfactory fitting of experimental data. In addition, it was possible to determine that inhibition effects of aromatics on hydrodesulfurization exist but depend to some extent on the molecular structure of the aromatic.On the other hand, this work also contributes by providing experimental values of adsorption constants of compounds reacting under hydrotreatment conditions which despite the significant advances in theoretical calculations are not yet available in open literature.