The kinetics of hydrodenitrogenation
(HDN) were systematically
studied in an isothermally high-throughput reactor over three kinds
of catalysts (CoMo, NiMo, and NiMoW) to produce clean diesel meeting
the latest national standard of China. The influences of reaction
temperature, reaction pressure, volume ratio of H2 to oil,
and space time on hydrodenitrogenation were investigated to obtain
kinetic parameters. Two kinetic models considering the influence of
self-inhibition were proposed for the HDN reaction of diesel oil.
The results of both models are satisfactory. Taking the two-lump model
as an example, it could well predict the evolution of nitrogen-containing
compounds’ concentration along the axial length of the reactor,
and the simulation on the HDN activity of various catalyst stacking
schemes is close to the experimental data, which proves that the model
is applicable for the simulation of a catalyst stacking system. In
addition, the concentration of nitrogen-containing compounds was predicted
for the catalyst gradation model of different loading sequences.