P-Mo-B-217 Insitu Regeneration of Metal Catalysts Used for Hydrotreatment of Bio-Oil

Monday, June 15, 2015
Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)
Rachid Taha1, Zia Abdullah1, Brad Chadwell1, Huamin Wang2, Daniel Anderson2 and Guo-Shuh J Lee2, (1)Battelle Memorial Institute, USA, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.
Deactivation of metal catalysts with carbon during hydrotreatment of bio-oil can be recovered insitu with organic polar solvent rinse followed by reduction with hydrogen. This presentation goes over the regeneration process and catalyst characterization.

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