Zr modified spherical mesostructured cellular silica foams (MCFs) with different Zr contents were successfully synthesized via an incipient wetness impregnation method. The characterization results of FTIR, SEM, and SAXS indicated that zirconium was fabricated into the silicon framework; meanwhile, the parent sphere-like morphology and topological structure were retained. Additionally, BET results showed that the as-synthesized materials possessed ultralarge pore volume (1.56 cm 3 /g), large pore size (15.9 nm), and high surface area (467 m 2 /g) when the weight percentage of Zr in the support was 12.6%, demonstrating that MCFs would be an alternative support for hydrotreating catalyst. Furthermore, the corresponding supported NiMo/Zr-MCFs catalysts were well-characterized. It was found that zirconium as an electronic promoter not only facilitated the formation of NiMoO 4 precursor but also enhanced the redox ability of the catalysts as well as brought Brønsted and Lewis acid sites into MCFs, which were conducive to the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) performance. Then the catalyst activities were evaluated by using FCC diesel as feedstock, in which NiMo/Zr-MCFs-6.9 catalyst (Si/Zr = 20) had the highest hydrodesulfurization (97.3%) and hydrodenitrogenation efficiencies (98.1%); correspondingly, the main reasons could be ascribed to its desirable textural property, suitable redox ability, appropriate dispersion degree of active metals, and moderate acid property.

A micro/mesoporous material Beta-FDU-12 was successfully synthesized. The material was used as a support additive and the corresponding catalyst CoMo/BFA was post-treated with EDTA. The catalyst CoMoE/BFA exhibited excellent hydro-upgrading performance for FCC gasoline.

In the present work, a series of Al‐containing spherical mesostructured cellular silica foams (SMCFs) with different ultra‐large pore sizes were successfully synthesized by simply adjusting the mass ratio (x) of the swelling agent 1,3,5‐trimethylbenzene (TMB) to P123. The as‐synthesized Al‐SMCFs‐x were utilized as NiMo catalyst supports for the hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene. The characterization results showed that, compared with other studied NiMo/Al‐SMCFs‐x catalysts, the NiMo/Al‐SMCFs‐1.25 catalyst exhibited higher sulfidation degree, higher dispersions of Ni and Mo species, shorter length, and lower stacking number of MoS2 slabs. It was also found that the NiMo/Al‐SMCFs‐1.25 catalyst possessed suitable physicochemical parameters [i.e., ultra‐large pore size (27.5 nm), high surface area (383 m2 g−1), and large pore volume (1.34 cm3 g−1), resulting in the formation of more type II active sites with more brim active sites. Consequently, the NiMo/Al‐SMCFs‐1.25 catalyst displayed outstanding catalytic performance for the hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene.

Supported MoCo/δ-Al2O3 catalysts promoted by different organic and inorganic cobalt salts were synthesized by incipient-wetness impregnation. The HDS activities of the catalysts increased in the order MoCo-A/δ < MoCo-N/δ < MoCo-D/δ < MoCo-S/δ.

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