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Chemistry and Reactivity of Transition Metal Sulphides in Relation to Their Catalytic Performance

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The removal of heteroatoms such as sulphur, nitrogen and metals from oil feedstock by transition metal sulphides has long been one of the major catalytic processes in petroleum industry. The primary driving force for this removal is the protection of catalysts in downstream operations. The growing environmental awareness in the early ‘70s went along with a large research effort in this field resulting in a fair understanding of the structure of these catalysts and the basis of their catalytic activity. Today, the diminishing oil supplies necessitate the processing of heavier feeds containing larger amounts of sulphur, nitrogen and metals. Moreover, legislation on transportation fuels becomes more stringent as can be seen in Table 1. The standard for the sulphur content of diesel fuels will be sharpened in the near future in anticipation of a working deNOx catalyst with a low sulphur tolerance. The total investment costs for the oil industry to produce more advanced fuels according to the EC proposition for the year 2000 will be over 8 billion ECUs over a period of 15 years.

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Hensen, E.J.M., De Beer, V.H.J., Van Santen, R.A. (1998). Chemistry and Reactivity of Transition Metal Sulphides in Relation to Their Catalytic Performance. In: Weber, T., Prins, R., van Santen, R.A. (eds) Transition Metal Sulphides. NATO ASI Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3577-3_7

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