Cobalt-Molybdenum-Aluminium Oxide Catalyst Weight for Hydro-De-Sulhurization in Packed Tubular Catalytic Reactor

The hydro-de-sulphurization of petroleum products light distillates is a catalyst-hydrodynamics flow-driven refining process in any of the heterogeneous reactors. This research focused on applying packed-bed catalytic reactor integral design model analogous to plug flow reactor model developed from first principles of balance; incorporating catalyst weight in the reactor. The model was integrated numerically to predict catalyst weight required for HDS actions at 100 percent catalyst efficiency. The prediction result of catalyst weight in the packed-bed catalytic reactor at conversion of 85 percent was determined as 3.1785kg. The rate of catalyst cobaltmolybdenum-aluminum oxide (Co -M0Al203 ) decay for the research obeyed a first order reaction rate law as a function of time with a progressive conversion of distillate