Recycling of the used automotive lubricating oil by ionizing radiation process

The recycling process of the used mineral oils has been gaining a very important gap in the context of environmental protection. Among mineral oils from petroleum, the lubricating oils are not entirely consumed during their use; therefore, it is necessary to apply a treatment for recuperation seeking their reuse. Moreover, the environmental legislation of countries does not allow their discard in any type of soils, rivers, lakes, oceans or sewerage systems.The conventional treatment has shown certain difficulties in the recuperation process for used oils. The ionizing radiation process is renowned in the industrial effluents treatments due to its high efficiency in the degradation of organic compounds and in the removal of metals by the action of OH, H and e_aq radicals.In this work, used automotive lubricating oil was treated by the ionizing radiation process for metal removal and degradation of organic compounds. The samples were irradiated with 100 and 200 kGy irradiation doses. Determination of the elements Mg, Al, P, S, Cl, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Mo, Nb, Cd, Sn, Ba, Bi and Pb, before and after the irradiation, was done by X-ray fluorescence technique and the organic profile was obtained by infrared spectroscopy.     

Dilution effect on catalytic pyrolysis of hydrocarbons

It is shown that unlike thermal pyrolysis, the rate of catalytic pyrolysis is greatly affected by dilution of hydrocarbons with inert gases. The nature of this effect has been analyzed.

---

, . .

     

Modelling the viscosity of carbon-based nanomaterials dispersed in diesel oil: a machine learning approach

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The viscosity of a nanofluid is one of its fundamental thermophysical properties, and it is an important consideration in heat transfer applications....     

Fluidised bed pyrolysis of Moroccan oil shales using the hamburg pyrolysis process

In the present work, the pyrolysis of the Moroccan Timahdit oil shale was studied, using a fluidised bed process. Four experiments were carried out at different temperatures between 520 and 630 °C. By mass balance could be shown that in relation to the kerogen content up to 60 wt.% of oil and 25 wt.% of gas are obtained. These are 40% higher yields compared with the Fischer assay. It was shown that the carbon in the residue, which is much lower (only 12 wt.%) than in the Fischer assay (26 wt.%), explains this difference.     

催化热解废轮胎制衍生油

催化热解废轮胎对于资源利用及环境保护具有重要意义,近年来引起人们关注.在废轮胎胶粉热解反应中加入催化剂,不仅会加速胶粉裂解速率,缩短反应时间,而且可以通过催化剂择形催化改变产物分布,从而提高目的产物衍生油的收率和性能.国内外对废轮胎催化热解已做了大量研究,以期提高衍生油中高附加值单环芳烃的含量,同时降低S, N和Cl含量,虽然已取得较大进展,但衍生油收率较低,大大降低了该技术的可行性.
　　本文采用带搅拌器的1000 mL不锈钢反应器,在常压条件下研究了反应温度和催化剂类型对废轮胎胶粉热解反应及产物衍生油性能的影响,通过元素分析、馏程模拟和色谱-质谱等表征手段检测了衍生油的理化性能.结果表明,在废轮胎胶粉热解反应过程中,随反应温度上升,出油速率先增加后降低.至500 oC时,热解衍生油收率最高达55.65 wt%,所得衍生油呈黑棕色,具有轻质油含量低、S和N含量高、粘度低和流动性好的特点,其轻质芳烃含量低,却含有大量可以转变为芳烃的脂肪烃类.因此,为了提高衍生油中轻质油和轻质芳烃收率,降低S和N含量,尽量维持较高的衍生油收率,在热解反应过程中引入少量ZSM-5, USY,β, SAPO-11和ZSM-22等常见催化剂,利用催化剂独特的孔道结构和酸分布,达到定向催化和转化的目的,提高轻质芳烃含量.同时,为了克服催化剂与胶粉难以接触进行反应的问题,在反应温度升至200 oC时,维持一定时间保证胶粉发生溶胀和液化反应形成液体烃类,使得催化剂不仅能够均匀分散于液体烃中与其接触进行反应,而且有效提高了反应物料与催化剂之间传质传热效率,使得裂解反应在均相中进行,降低因传热不均匀而造成的结焦和过度裂化反应.在催化热解过程中,1.0 wt%催化剂的加入可明显缩短反应时间,在保证衍生油收率基本不变的情况下,获得的衍生油呈黄棕色,轻质油收率较高为70–75 wt%, S和N含量分别降至0.3–0.58wt%和0.78–1.0 wt%.以具有较高酸性和孔径分布的ZSM-5, USY,β和SAPO-11为催化剂时,衍生油中总芳烃含量可达到50 wt%,其中单环芳烃含量高达45 wt%.     

Effects of the types of zeolites on catalytic upgrading of pyrolysis wax oil

Because zeolites play an important role in an upgrading catalyst for heavy hydrocarbons in industrial refinery processes, the effects of the zeolite type on the upgrading of pyrolysis wax oil are investigated in this study. Raw pyrolysis wax oil was obtained from the pyrolysis of municipal plastic wastes in a commercial rotary kiln pyrolysis plant (Dongmyong RPF Co.). The catalystic experiments are performed for the three different types of commercial zeolites with different physicochemical properties in a continuous fixed bed reactor at 450 °C for 1 h as a MAT(micro-activity test) method: HZSM-5 (pure), zeolite Y (HY; pure or including 20% clay) and mordenite (HM; including 20% clay or alumina) catalysts. The highest conversion of pyrolysis wax oil into light hydrocarbons such as gas products and gasoline-range hydrocarbons is obtained for the HZSM-5 catalyst among them, and the composition of liquid products is found to become in the main aromatic components due to a shape selectivity. For the case of zeolite Y(HY), medium activity and the highest fraction of branched hydrocarbons with a high octane number, as well as a high fraction of aromatic products are shown. However, the mordenite (HM) with one-dimensional pore structure shows the lowest conversion of pyrolysis wax oil into light hydrocarbons and a very high fraction of paraffin product in the liquid product like the characteristics of raw pyrolysis wax oil.     

重油催化裂解多产乙烯丙烯催化剂的研究

采用半合成法制备了不同金属改性的ZSM-5分子筛催化剂,以大庆VGO为原料,在固定床微型反应装置上对不同金属改性催化剂进行裂解生产低碳烯烃效果的评价,筛选出生产乙烯、丙烯性能较好的银+镧双金属改性催化剂,采用喷雾干燥的方法成型,并在800℃、100%水蒸气下老化处理4h。该催化剂在两段提升管实验装置上,以大庆AR为原料的评价结果表明,乙烯和丙烯收率可分别达到9.5%和24.9%;若考虑C4组分回炼,乙烯和丙烯收率可分别达到13.0%和29.9%。     

Studies on the additive performance of liquid crystal blended polyacrylate in lubricating oil

Homopolymer of decyl acrylate (D) was synthesised, characterised (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)) and evaluated for its additive performance as antiwear (AW), pour point depressant (PPD) and viscosity modifier (VM). Physical blends of the polymer were also made with three different types of liquid crystals (each containing three samples), evaluated and the results were compared. The study indicated that additive performances (AW, VM and PPD) of the blended composites were much better in comparison to the homopolymer of polydecyl acrylates.     

Kinetic analysis of catalytic slurry oil pyrolysis using thermogravimetric analysis

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Pyrolysis is an important process for converting unconventional fuels, such as heavy oil, residues and oil sand, to high-value-added light products....     

Effects of the pyrolysis process on the oil sorption capacity of rice husk

Fixed bed slow pyrolysis experiments on rice husks were carried out in order to determine the effect of pyrolysis temperature upon: porous structure; surface morphology; phase composition; total amount, nature and distribution of the volatile compounds finely dispersed on the solid pyrolysis residues. The pyrolysis experiments were performed within the temperature range 250–700 °C. The sorption capacity of pyrolyzed rice husks for crude oil was determined. The results indicate that the increase in oil sorption capacity of rice husks after pyrolysis is the result of mutual influence of the above mentioned parameters. It was established that the oil sorption capacity was more strongly influenced by the porous structure of the adsorbents than by their phase composition and by the nature and amount of finely dispersed fluids. For achieving the purpose that was set in advance, the capabilities of: scanning electron microscopy, mercury porosimetry, Brunauer–Emmett–Teller method, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, gas-chromatography/mass spectrometric analysis, extraction and gravimetric analysis were used.     

Non-isothermal thermogravimetric analysis of pyrolysis kinetics of four oil shales using Sestak–Berggren method

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In this study, the non-isothermal pyrolysis method was used to investigate the pyrolysis characteristics of oil shale from four areas: namely Nongan,...     

Light olefins and light oil production from catalytic pyrolysis of waste tire

This paper investigates the catalytic activity of MCM-41 synthesized via silatrane route and Ru/MCM-41 in waste tire pyrolysis. The experimental results showed that the presence of catalysts strongly influenced the yield and nature of products. Namely, the gas yield increased at the expense of liquid yield. In addition, a considerable high yield of light olefins, 4 times higher than non-catalytic pyrolysis, can be achieved for Ru/MCM-41 catalyst. Furthermore, the uses of catalysts produced much lighter oil and there was a drastic increase in the concentration of single ring aromatics in accordance to a reduction in polycyclic aromatic compounds in the derived oils. Ru/MCM-41 produced the lightest oil and the oil has the highest concentration of mono-aromatics. The high activity of catalysts, particularly Ru/MCM-41 was discussed in relation with the catalyst characterization results obtained from various techniques including TPD-NH₃, H₂-chemisorption, XRD, N₂-adsorption/desorption analysis, and TPO.     

聚苯乙烯的催化裂解研究

由于塑料性质稳定,难以自然降解,其废弃物不仅严重污染环境,更造成了资源浪费.因此,废旧塑料的再资源化对环境保护和可持续发展有着重要意义.废塑料再资源化回收技术是指将废塑料热裂解或催化裂解、回收燃料油和化工原料的技术~([1,2]).     

Synergistic effect of W and P on ZSM-5 and its catalytic performance in the cracking of heavy oil

In order to develop the conversion of heavy oil with a high yield of propylene in the catalytic cracking process, ZSM-5 zeolite was modified by tungsten and phosphorus, which was proved to be an effective method. Characterization results show that the improvement of catalytic performance could be correlated to the interaction of phosphorus and tungsten species on ZSM-5. P inhibited the aggregation of tungsten species on ZSM-5 and was conductive to convert the tungsten species with octahedral coordination into tetrahedral coordination. And this ultimately led to that more acid sites were reserved after hydrothermal treatment in the tungsten and phosphorus co-modified ZSM-5 catalyst. Phosphorus species played an important role to restrain the dehydrogenation activity of tungsten. In addition, a model reflecting the interaction between tungsten species and ZSM-5 framework was proposed.     

Synergistic effect of W and P on ZSM-5 and its catalytic performance in the cracking of heavy oil

In order to develop the conversion of heavy oil with a high yield of propylene in the catalytic cracking process, ZSM-5 zeolite was modified by tungsten and phosphorus, which was proved to be an effective method. Characterization results show that the improvement of catalytic performance could be correlated to the interaction of phosphorus and tungsten species on ZSM-5. P inhibited the aggregation of tungsten species on ZSM-5 and was conductive to convert the tungsten species with octahedral coordination into tetrahedral coordination. And this ultimately led to that more acid sites were reserved after hydrothermal treatment in the tungsten and phosphorus co-modified ZSM-5 catalyst. Phosphorus species played an important role to restrain the dehydrogenation activity of tungsten. In addition, a model reflecting the interaction between tungsten species and ZSM-5 framework was proposed.     

Catalytic gasification of pyrolytic oil from tire pyrolysis process

The present work deals with thermo-catalytic decomposition of pyrolytic oil from the scrap tire pyrolysis process. Such oil can be used as a model tar in an experimental study of tar removal from pyrolysis or gasification process gas. Several experiments under different conditions were carried out in order to determine conditions of the gasification and pyrolysis processes. Influence of the oil to steam ratio, temperature, and of the presence of dolomite catalyst was studied. Addition of water steam has positive effect on the hydrogen content in the outgoing process gas as well as on the conversion of the injected oil. The catalytic gasification experiment in a quasi steady state produced process gas with the composition: 61 mole % of H₂, 6.4 mole % of CO, and 11.7 mole % of CH₄. At temperatures lower than 800°C, the amount of process gas decreased resulting also in a decrease of the oil conversion. A comparison of gasification experiments using fresh calcined dolomite with experiments proceeding with regenerated dolomite was done under the same conditions. There was a decrease in the process gas volumetric flow when regenerated catalyst was used.     

Thermal and catalytic degradation of pyrolytic oil from pyrolysis of municipal plastic wastes

Thermal and catalytic degradation of pyrolytic oil obtained from the commercial rotary kiln pyrolysis plant for municipal plastic waste was studied by using fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst in a bench scale reactor. The characteristics of raw pyrolytic oil and also thermal and catalytic degradation of pyrolytic oil using FCC catalyst (fresh and spent FCC catalyst) under rising temperature programming was examined. The experiments were conducted by temperature programming with 10 °C/min of heating rate up to 420 °C and then holding time of 5 h. During this programming, the sampling of product oil was conducted at a different degradation temperature and also different holding time. The raw pyrolytic oil showed a wide retention time distribution in GC analysis, from 5 of carbon number to about 25, and also different product characteristics with a comparison of those of commercial oils (gasoline, kerosene and diesel). In thermal degradation, the characteristics of product oils obtained were influenced by reaction temperature under temperature programming and holding time in the reactor at 420 °C. The addition of FCC catalyst in degradation process showed the improvement of liquid and gas yield, and also high fraction of heavy hydrocarbons in oil product due to more cracking of residue. Moreover, the characteristic of oil product in catalytic degradation using both spent and fresh FCC catalysts were similar, but a relatively good effect of spent FCC catalyst was observed.