Catalytic Cracking of Furfural Extract-40 over Ni/HY-Zeolite Catalyst

Abdullah M Jumaah,Khalid K Humadi

doi:10.31026/j.eng.2021.01.05

Abstract

Modifying of HY/Zeolite is by loading nickel for applying catalyst in thermal catalytic cracking of furfural extract-40 from the lubricating base oil unit. The study involved the characterizing of HY-zeolite and promoted catalyst with nickel by X-ray diffraction analysis, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BET (Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller), and infrared ray analyses FTIR. The catalytic thermal cracking tubular reactor with a fixed bed with two type catalysts; HY/zeolite and Ni HY/zeolite, individually at a temperature of 580oC with LHSV 5h-1 was investigated. The results indicated that increase the conversion of catalytic cracking of furfural extract-40 also increases the yield of useful petroleum products and decreases the coke depsite on the Ni HY-Zeolite catalyst.

Highlights

The process of cracking is the disintegration of heavy petroleum fractions and residue
The catalytic cracking of furfural extract-40 over HY-Zeolite and prepared NiHY-Zeolite to produce useful petroleum products such as gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, and lubricating oil was investigated to improve the conversion of furfural extract in catalytic cracking
3.1Characterization of catalyst: 3.1.1 X-ray Diffraction (XRD): The purity of solid crystal of HY-Zeolite obtained by comparing the x-ray diffraction pattern of prepared zeolite with x–ray diffraction pattern of the standard obtained from the International

Summary

INTRODUCTION

The process of cracking is the disintegration of heavy petroleum fractions and residue. Furfural extract is the byproduct of extraction units, which is used to improve the viscosity index of different kinds of lubricating oil fractions and reduce the product's cost. It has a high viscosity, concentrated on high aromatics hydrocarbon (Esgair, 2018). The catalytic cracking's support material is applied for improving and defending against attrition the catalyst's mechanical strength It is an advocate for enhancing the electronic properties and the essential characteristic acid and acid, such as alkaline or alkali earth metals (Abu El-Rub et al, 2004 and Bartholomew and Farrauto, 2011). The catalytic cracking of furfural extract-40 over HY-Zeolite and prepared NiHY-Zeolite to produce useful petroleum products such as gasoline, kerosene, gas oil, and lubricating oil was investigated to improve the conversion of furfural extract in catalytic cracking

Catalysts Preparation

The experimental procedure

Result and discussion

Surface area and pore volume

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy analysis

CONCLUSIONS