Selective hydrogenation of sunflower oil over supported precious metals (original) (raw)

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This work focuses on the influence of the support and the preparation method on the activity and selectivity of nickel catalysts in the hydrogenation of sunflower oil. Catalysts were prepared over silica and alumina supports following the incipient wetness impregnation and deposition-precipitation techniques. The activation process was followed by temperature-programmed reduction (TPR). Precipitation-deposition method allowed a stronger metal-support interaction than incipient wetness impregnation. A precipitation-deposition time of 14 h (which allowed a Ni loading of about 20 wt%) was deemed as the most adequate from the standpoint of high specific surface area and strong Ni-support interaction. The selectivity to oleic acid was not affected by the preparation method, but it was significantly influenced by the type of support. In this regard, the catalysts prepared on silica are more active and produce less saturated fatty acids.

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Table 2. Physical properties of supports and catalyst precursors pre- pared by precipitation-deposition RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Fig. 1. TPR profiles of nickel catalytic precursors prepared using different precipitation-deposition times. Ni/SiO,, (a) 5h; (b) 24h; (c) 50h; (d) 100h.

Table 1. Nickel content and yield of deposition of Ni as a function of precipitation-deposition time

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Table 3 shows the nickel content, the preparation yield and the main physical properties of nickel catalysts prepared by PD and IW methods. The Ni content is slightly higher for PD catalysts. Moreover, PD catalysts also show a significantly higher surface area. This effect is not dependent on the support, although it is more pronounced for silica supported catalyst, for which BET area is in- Based on these results, a precipitation-deposition time of 14h was selected to prepare catalysts with a Ni loading of about 20 wt%, to achieve a compromise between high specific surface area and strong Ni-support interaction. Nickel loading was selected based on the fact that higher nickel contents do not lead to a proportional increase in catalytic activity. Coenen [14] reported that catalyst activ- ity per unit mass of nickel is proportional to accessible nickel surface area, for catalysts of low nickel content (up to 15 wt%, approximately). For higher metallic content, the ratio is not proportional, since part of the nickel is inaccessible, located in small pores. Consequently,

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Table 3. Physicochemical properties of catalysts. PD: catalysts prepared by precipitation-deposition (14h precipitation-deposition time). TW: catalysts prepared by incipient wetness impregnation used, evidencing a stronger metal-support interaction. only surface nickel determines the reaction rate. Rodrigo et al. [15] confirmed these results using catalysts of low metallic content (10 wt% of nickel onto silica) in the hydrogenation of sunflower oil.

Fig. 3. Pore size distributions: (a) SiO, support and catalysts sup- ported on SiO,; (b) Al,O,; support and catalysts supported on ALO,.

Fig. 4. TG and DTG plots of: (a) Ni/SiO, (PD); (b) Ni/ALO; (PD); (c) Ni/SiO, (TW); (d) Ni/AL,O, (IW) and (e) comparison of TG plots for all nickel-containing catalyst precursors.

Table 4. Kinetic parameters for catalysts prepared using different supports and preparation methods. Operating conditions: 150 °C and 3.5 bar

Fig. 5. Temperature programmed reduction (TPR) of nickel cata- lytic precursors: (a) Ni/SiO, (PD); (b) Ni/ALO; (PD); (c) Ni/ SiO, (IW); (d) Ni/ALO, (IW).

Fig. 6. Evolution with time of iodine value (IV) using different cat- alysts. (@) Ni/SiO, (PD); (A) Ni/ALO, (PD); (OQ) Ni/SiO, (IW); (A) Ni/ALO, (IW).

Fig. 7. Reactant and product profile in the hydrogenation of sunflower oil (@) C18:2; (A) C18:1 cis; (A) C18:1 trans; (@) C18:0; (a) Ni/ SiO, (PD); (b) Ni/ALO, (PD); (c) Ni/SiO, (IW); and (d) Ni/AI,O, (IW). Reaction conditions: temperature, 423 K; H, pressure, 3.5 bar, 0.02% Ni/oil. Lines represent model prediction.

Fig. 8. Reaction pathway described by the kinetic model. A kinetic model was developed to describe the evolution of the products during the hydrogenation process. The assumed reaction

Table 5. Kinetic constant values for nickel catalysts at 150°C and 3.5 bar Regarding catalyst activity, data in Fig. 6 show that for a target IV value of 70, Ni/SiO, systems, either PD or IW, require about half as much reaction time as alumina supported samples (50 min vs. 100 minutes, respectively). Therefore, these catalysts could be

Table 6. S; selectivity and S, and S, indices for nickel catalysts at 150°C, 3.5 bar and 0.02% Ni/oil Table 6 summarizes these parameters for the studied catalysts. The values of S? vary from 5.06 to 7.73. According to these values, Ni/ ALO; (PD) and Ni/SiO, (IW) catalysts exhibit the highest S/ selec- tivity, reflecting the favorable cis-C18:1 formation with respect to the amount of unsaturated fatty acids (C18:0) produced. The oppo- site could be applied to Ni/SiO, (PD) and Ni/AL,O; (IW) catalysts.

Fig. 9. Percentage of cis and trans oleate and stearate formed at a IV of 70 for the indicated catalysts.

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