Abstract:
Two Al
2O
3 supports were characterized by means of NH
3-TPD, FT-IR and N
2 adsorption-desorption. The characterization results showed that the two Al
2O
3 supports have no significant differences in their total acidity and acidity strength. The acid sites are mainly Lewis ones, but Al
2O
3 (b) has larger average pore diameter and pore volume than Al
2O
3 (a). The influence of the pore structures of the Al
2O
3 supports on the full range FCC gasoline upgrading performance of the nanosized HZSM-5 based catalysts was investigated in a fixed-bed reactor. The results indicated that the HZSM-5 catalyst extruded with macroporous Al
2O
3 exhibited superior activity, stability and performance in reducing olefin content of FCC gasoline. The modified nanosized LaNiMo/HZSM-5 catalyst reduced olefin and sulfur concentration in FCC gasoline by about 83% and 87% within 300 h time on stream, respectively, meanwhile the gasoline octane number was preserved.