Air-promoted adsorptive desulfurization of diesel fuel over Ti-Ce mixed metal oxides

AIChE Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 631-639

  Xiao, Jing ^a,b   Sitamraju, Siddarth ^a   Chen, Yongsheng ^a   Watanabe, Shingo ^a   Fujii, Mamoru ^a   Janik, Michael ^a,c   Song, Chunshan ^a,c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Desulfurization; Diesel; Metal oxides

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BINARY ALLOYS; CERIUM OXIDE; DECELERATION; DESULFURIZATION; DIESEL ENGINES; DIESEL FUELS; FUELS; NAPHTHALENE; TEMPERATURE; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY;

4 ,6-DIMETHYL-DIBENZOTHIOPHENE; ADSORPTION AFFINITY; ADSORPTION SELECTIVITY; ADSORPTIVE DESULFURIZATION; DIESEL; METAL OXIDES; METHYLNAPHTHALENE; REGENERABLE ADSORBENTS;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

EID: 84921047412     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14647     Document Type: Article

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