Selective removal of sulfur compounds in fuel oil by combination of oxidation and adsorption

摘要

There is a stringent need for new methods of reducing the sulfur content in fule oils in order to satisfy the upcoming pieces of legislation that will limit the sulfur content more and more drastically (1).Indeed,the environmental regulations for on-road diesel fuels planned in europe call for a sulfur content reduction from the current level of 350 ppm to 50 ppm by 2005 and to 10 ppm by 2009,while in the us the actual level of 500 ppm will have to be decreased down to 15 ppm in 2006.