摘要

A facile transportation fuel reductive and extractive desulfurization process is studied using polyethylene glycol as extraction solvent, which is economical and environmental friendly, and sodium borohydride as reductant in this work. Several important parameters including sodium borohydride and nickel chloride dosage, stirring rate, temperature and polyethylene glycol/oil volume ratio are investigated. The total sulfur desulfurization efficiency for the simulated fuel reaches nearly 97% in this process after 1 h reaction at the temperature of 10 degrees C with sodium borohydride/sulfur molar ratio = 15, nickel chloride/sulfur molar ratio = 3, polyethylene glycol/oil volume ratio = 1. Furthermore, the desulfurization efficiency can be enhanced to 99% in a two-step desulfurization process. All components were detected by GC or GC-MS, and the possible desulfurization mechanism is deduced. The results show that sulfur compounds can be removed by direct desulfurization. The desulfurization performance of recycled polyethylene glycol and regenerated polyethylene glycol was also investigated and the desulfurization efficiency was 92% and 90% respectively, indicating polyethylene glycol can be regenerated in this process. Finally, actual transportation fuels (e.g. gasoline, diesel) were investigated and it revealed that polyethylene glycol and sodium borohydride can be applied in actual fuel extractive and reductive desulfurization.