What is it about?

Elimination of nitrogen (N) compounds contained in fuel oils is one of the essential processes for petroleum refinery due of their hindering consequences on the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) process.

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Why is it important?

In this review paper, published data of EDN of fuel oils using ILs are summarized.

Perspectives

As the requirement for cleaner fuel oils rises, standards to lower N-contents in fuel oils will be implemented, and substitute technologies will be utilized due to limitations of the hydrotreating process to meet rising demands. Recently, ILs have proven and earned flourishing global interest as model solvents in different separation operations due to their ideal behaviour relative to traditional organic solvents. More experiments using ILs are expected to be reported as is evident from the massive number of publications.

Prof Dr Abdul Waheed Bhutto
Dawood University of Engineering and Technology

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This page is a summary of: Extractive denitrogenation of fuel oils using ionic liquids: a review, RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra09370a.
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