Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies on Raney Ni/Al2O3 Adsorption for Deep Desulfurization of Benzene Stream

摘要

How to remove trace amount of sulfur in benzene is of significance,and deep desulfurization by Ni-containing absorbents is an efficient and promising method.In this paper,The Raney Ni/Al2 O3 adsorbent was prepared and its kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics on adsorptive desulfurization of benzene were studied.The results showed that Raney Ni/Al2 O3 adsorbent exhibited good adsorption performance.The equilibrium isotherms indicated that the adsorption of thiophene over the Raney Ni/Al2 O3 adsorbent complied with the Freundlich model.The results of adsorption kinetics studies showed that the pseudo-second-order kinetics equation was more advantageous than the pseudo-first-order kinetics equation in describing the adsorption kinetics of thiophene on Raney Ni/Al2 O3.The rate constant value(kp)was positively correlated with the temperature whereas the adsorption mass transfer process was mainly determined by the intraparticle and film diffusion.The adsorption thermodynamic analysis proved that△G^00,and△S^0>0,implying that the adsorption was a spontaneous,entropy-increasing and endothermic process.