Assessing compositional changes of nitrogen compounds during hydrotreating of typical diesel range gas oils using a novel preconcentration technique coupled with gas chromatography and atomic emission detection

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 533-540

  Wiwel, Peter ^a   Knudsen, Kim ^a   Zeuthen, Per ^a   Whitehurst, Duayne ^a  

^a HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COMPOSITION; DIESEL FUELS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS OILS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PETROLEUM REFINING;

ATOMIC EMISSION DETECTOR; HYDRODENITROGENATION; HYDROTREATMENT;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

NITROGEN DERIVATIVE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; EXHAUST GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034143920     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990554e     Document Type: Article

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