“…Environmental regulations have been modified to allow that lower levels of sulfured compounds to be ejected to the atmosphere. Industrially, the removal of organosulfur and organonitrogen compounds in fuel oils is being carried out by means of a simultaneous hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) process at around 350 °C using catalysts based on CoMo or NiMo, which involves the C-S and C-N bond cleavage to produce H 2 S and NH 3 , respectively (Zaczepinski, 1996, Kabe et al, 1999Ferrari et al, 2001;Caeiro, et al, 2007). Deep desulfurization of diesel fuels is particularly challenging due to the difficulty of reduce aromatic sulfur compounds, particularly 4,6-dialkyldibenzothiophenes, using conventional hydrodesulfurization processes (HDS).…”