Removal of mercaptans from light oils using ionic liquid–NaOH aqueous solution as extractants

    Removal of Mercaptans from Light Oils Using Ionic Liquids-NaOH Aqueous Solution as Extractants Jianwei Li, Xiang Li, Yan Liu, Jie Zhang PII: DOI: Reference:

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ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Removal of Mercaptans from Light Oils Using Ionic Liquids-NaOH Aqueous Solution as Extractants Jianwei Li, Xiang Li, Yan Liu, Jie Zhang*

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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing

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Abstract The application of ionic liquids as alternatives to conventional organic solvents in the extraction process

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has been investigated. In the present study, fourteen species of imidazolium-based ionic liquids were added into the NaOH (aq) to remove the mercaptans. The influences of anion species and cation alkyl chain length of the

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imidazolium-based ionic liquids on the performance of mercaptans removal from light oils have been discussed. The efficiency of extraction for mercaptans exhibited the order of Ac- > OH- ≈ Br- > BF4-. The longer alkyl chain imidazolium-based ionic liquids contributed to enhance desulfurization rate of 1-butyl mercaptan. 100% desulfurization rate of 1-butyl mercaptan was achieved by the anion of Ac- ionic liquids and NaOH (aq) at a volume ratio of 40:1 (V(oil):V(ionic liquid)) and a short equilibrium time within 10 minutes.

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1 INTRODUCTION

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Keywords extraction, ionic liquids, NaOH, light oil, mercaptan removal

Recently, worldwide environmental policies have gradually decreased the allowed limits of

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sulfur content in the light oils in order to reduce atmospheric pollution and derived effects such as

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acid rain [1, 2]. Therefore, it is an important process to remove sulfur compounds from the light oil. Among these sulfur compounds exist in the light oil, the mercaptan is toxic, malodorous and corrosive contributing to damage chemical instruments and pipelines and may cause the deactivation of catalyst during the reactions [3-5].The most widely used method for removing the mercaptan present in the light oil and natural gas is Merox technology. The classic Merox technology uses caustic solution to extract mercaptans from the light oil by the formation of mercaptides, and followed by the conversion to disulfides by the oxidization in order to accelerate the mass transfer of mercaptans from oil phase to the extractant [6-9]. Owing to the limitation of

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail address: [email protected] Article history: Received 10 June 2016 Received in revised form 19 August 2016 Accepted 28 August 2016 Available online xxxx

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However, these traditional organic solvents have mainly two drawbacks: (i) the poor selectivity as

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traditional organic solvents can extract plenty of olefins as well as removing sulfur compounds, which causes the loss of oil quality; (ii) the safety risks, including toxicity, flammability and

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volatility [12, 13].

Ionic liquids have attracted great attention on the application in biocatalysis, catalysis,

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electrochemistry, and polymerizations as safe solvents in the last years [14-16]. Because of the higher thermal/chemical stabilities and higher density than organic solvents, ionic liquids have been employed to dissolve and extract inorganic or organic compounds [17-20]. Considering the imidazolium-based ionic liquids are advantageous as they are easy to be manufactured in a

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commercial scale with very high yield [21-23], we added the imidazolium-based ionic liquids into NaOH (aq) in the extraction process of mercaptans instead of traditional organic solvents to

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accelerate the mass transfer in this study. We also investigated the effect of the ionic liquid species

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removal.

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and cation alkyl chain length imidazolium-based ionic liquids on performance of mercaptans

2 EXPERIMENTAL 2.1 Chemicals

The chemical materials used were purchased from different companies separately. 1-methyl imidazole (99 wt%), ethyl bromide (98 wt%), 1-butyl bromide (99 wt%), 1-hexyl bromide (99 wt%) and 1-octyl bromide (98 wt%) from Shanghai Aladdin Bio-Chem Technology Co., Ltd, KOH (AR), NaOH (AR), ethyl acetate (99.5%, wt), isopropyl alcohol (99.5 wt%) and ammonium fluoroborate from Tianjin Guangfu Fine Chemical Research Institute, 1-hexene (97 wt%) and 1-butyl mercaptan (97.5 wt%) from Lark technology Co., Ltd., methylbenzene (99.5 wt%) and acetone (99.5 wt%) from Beijing Chemical Works, and n-hexane from Sinopharm Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. All reagents were used as received.

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2.2 Preparation of ionic liquids The syntheses of imidazolium-based ionic liquids were prepared by two-step method

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according to the previous studies [24-26]. In a typical experiment, 1-methyl imidazole (0.44 mol) was added into the solution of methyl benzene (50 ml) in a flask with three necks, followed by the slow addition of 1-butyl bromide (0.4 mol) into the flask. The mixture was stirred magnetically for

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48 h at 70 oC, in order to achieve a perfect homogenization of the product. The process was kept under a dry nitrogen atmosphere in the flask with three necks to prevent raw materials from

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becoming oxidized. The product was distilled off under reduced pressure, then we got an intermediate product - [BMIM][Br]. Then, ammonium fluoroborate, potassium hydroxide and potassium acetate were added into [BMIM][Br], respectively, and stirred magnetically for 24 h at room temperature. The final products, [BMIM][BF4], [BMIM][OH] and [BMIM][Ac] were

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obtained after the removal of water and volatile impurities under vacuum at 80 oC for 48 h. And the other ionic liquids of different lengths of cation, such as [EMIM], [HMIM] and [OMIM], we

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just change 1-butyl bromide into ethyl bromide, 1-hexyl bromide and 1-octyl bromide,

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respectively. The prepared ionic liquids were stored in a dry inert atmosphere.

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2.3 Desulfurization experiments The extractions of 1-butyl mercaptan from mixtures of n-hexane and 1-hexene were used as a model for the desulfurization process. The model oil used is a binary mixture of n-hexane and 1-hexene, with 1-butyl mercaptan being 200×10-6. Since 1-butyl mercaptan is volatile, extraction experiments were carried out in a sealed bottle with a volume of approximately 200 ml, which equipped with a magnetic agitator and a glass thermometer. For each experiment, a certain amount of different ionic liquids and a fixed volume of NaOH (aq, 10%) at 30 ml were added directly into the model oil under magnetic stirring at a room temperature in the sealed bottle. The extraction experiments were generally controlled within 10 minutes. Then, the system was allowed to settle for about 2 hours and the samples were collected for analysis.

ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 2.4 Analysis method The S-contents with respect to 1-butyl mercaptan in the oil phase were measured by a gas chromatography detector (GC-4000A, East & West Analytical Instruments Ltd, China). The

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temperatures of detector, injector and column oven were 200 oC, 150 oC and 60 oC, respectively. For each sample, the analysis was repeated five times to obtain the average 1-butyl mercaptan-content. The maximum analysis errors of S-content were controlled within 1%.

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The characterizations of ionic liquids were investigated by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) at room temperature on a Bruker Tensor 27 FT-IR spectrometer with a MCT detector, using the

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method of KBr pellet. The results are shown in Fig. 1.

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3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Characterization of ionic liquids

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FT-IR spectra of different prepared ionic liquids were characterized and the results are shown in Fig. 1, it is found that most of the characteristic bands of imidazolium-based ionic liquids, which give clear evidence that products have been be synthesized. A broad peak in the range 3200-2800 cm-1 is due to the stretching vibrations of C-H from the imidazole ring. Both the samples of the ionic liquids exhibited a band at 1600-1450 cm-1, which is attributed to the stretching vibrations of C=N on the imidazole ring. It can also be found that there is a band at 1160-1170 cm-1, which is attributed to the stretching vibrations of imidazole ring. Whereas, the characteristic bands at 700-550 cm-1, originate from the swing bending vibrations of C-H on the imidazole ring [27-29]. Besides, the B-F stretching bands of BF4- group is at 1018 cm-1 (see Fig. 1(b)), the O-H stretching bands of OH- group exhibited a band at 3405 cm-1 (see Fig. 1(c)), and peak at wave

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3.2 The effect of anion of ionic liquids on 1-butyl mercaptan removal

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The results of extractive desulfurization performance are shown in Figure 1. When NaOH (aq) was added into the model oil, the desulfurization rate can be reached to 86.95%. However, ionic liquids and NaOH (aq) were put together into the model oil to remove 1-butyl mercaptan, the extraction efficiency had been significantly improved. The desulfurization rate is 93.2%, 98.3%, 98.4% and 100% for [Bmim][BF4]-NaOH, [Bmim][Br]-NaOH, [Bmim][OH]-NaOH, and [Bmim][Ac]-NaOH, respectively. Owing to the good solubility of 1-butyl mercaptan in ionic liquids, adding them has a great enhancement on the mass transfer of 1-butyl mercaptan from the oil phase to the lye phase, which improved the extraction ability [30]. Among these ionic liquids-NaOH, [Bmim][Ac]-NaOH exhibits the best 1-butyl mercaptan-removal performance, the final desulfurization rate of which is almost 100%. As shown in Fig. 2, the desulfurization rate follows [BF4]- < [Br]- ≈ [OH]- < [Ac]-. The ionic liquids with basic anion functional groups as extractants in the extraction experiment have better

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3.3 The effect of cation alkyl chain length The effects of alkyl chain length of imidazolium cation ([Cnmim]+, with n = 2, 4, 6 and 8) are

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illustrated in Fig. 3. For ionic liquids based on [BF4]-, [Br]- and [OH]-, the desulfurization rate for 1-butyl mercaptan follows the trend: [C2mim]+ < [C4mim]+ < [C6mim]+ < [C8mim]+. The effects of

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cation alkyl chain length are similar to those of the cation family and can be explained in this way. With the cation alkyl chain length increase, the symmetry of imidazolium-based ionic liquids reduce, and it can increase the polarity of the ionic liquid and enhance the interaction force between 1-butyl mercaptan and ionic liquids, which improve the desulfurization rate of 1-butyl mercaptan. As for Ac--based ionic liquids, the cation alkyl chain length has little effect on the desulfurization rate in our study. Different from the influence of cations, the effect of anions is greater.

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Extractive equilibrium time is another very important aspect of the extraction process

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because a short time favours high product yield in the practical application. As shown in Fig.4, the extractive equilibrium time of desulfurization by adding NaOH (aq) and ionic liquids together into

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the model oil is less than by adding NaOH (aq) alone. Among these four ionic liquids，the extraction process of [BMIM][Br]-NaOH, [BMIM][OH]-NaOH and [BMIM][Ac]-NaOH can get

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extractive equilibrium in one minute. However, the extraction process of [BMIM][BF4] needs 8 minutes to reach stable.

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volume of NaOH (aq) was fixed at 10 ml, and the volume ratio of model oil and ionic liquids were varied. It was found that the most effective ionic liquid-[OMIM][Ac]. The results are shown in Fig.

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5. As the oil-ionic liquid volume ratio decreases, the contents of 1-butyl mercaptanoil in the model oil reduce. However, according to the national regulations, S-contents shouldn’t be more than

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10×10-6. Owing to expensive prices of ionic liquids, we should take process cost into account. So the best ratio of desulfurization experiment is V(oil): V([HMIM][Ac])=40:1.

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4 CONCLUSIONS In this work, imidazolium-based ionic liquids were applied in the extraction process of mercaptans removal instead of conventional organic solvents, and the results have proven that the imidazolium-based ionic liquids possess excellent extraction performance of mercaptans. Owing to the better dispersion of ionic liquids in light oils, adding them has a great enhancement on the mass transfer of 1-butyl mercaptan from the oil phase to the lye phase. 100% desulfurization rate of 1-butyl mercaptan was achieved by the anion of [Ac]- ionic liquids at a volume ratio of 40:1:1 (V(oil):V(NaOH):V(ionic liquid)) and a short equilibrium time within 10 minutes. Meanwhile, the anion species of ionic liquids on the efficiency of extraction for mercaptans exhibited the order of

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