Stability study of Ruthenium promoted and

unpromoted catalysts by accelerated

deactivation method
E. Chacon-Ferra1, C. Ornelas2, C. Leyva-Porras1 and L. Alvarez-Contreras1

1 Departamento de Química e Ingeniería Química de Materiales, Centro de Investigación de

Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV)
2 Laboratório Nacional de Nanotecnologia NANOTECH

(*) corresponding author: lorena.alvarez@cimav.edu.mx

Introduction.-
The hydrotreatments face major challenges, largely to the Results.-
strictest environmental regulations and that crude oil is XRD Diffraction RT
extracted from deeper regions.

BET

BET

The great difficulty of the MoS2 base catalysts to comply with SEM
industry standards has driven the search for more active and
selective catalysts and with it the search for catalysts of
ruthenium with greater catalytic activity.

RuC16K 4RTC16K CI

TEM

As the temperature and pressure of the process increase,

more coke and metals are deposited on the catalysts,
increasing the deactivation.
Methodology- RuC16K 4RTC16K CI
HDS Test by deactivated Conclusion.-
method The addition of TiO2, effectively modified the dispersion of
Ru, but favoured the poisoning of the active phase by
carbon generating a coating that avoid active sites from
being avalaible.
V also may contribute to the deactivation of catalysts, this
element was found forming V2O5 instead of VxSy, which
suggested that the interaction of V was hindered by the
deposition of carbon.
Regarding the catalyst support, carbon deposition affected
in a larger extent to those based on silice (KIT-6) and with a
mesoporous microstructure, rather than the commercial
catalyst based on alumina with porous surface
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