US 8,524,073 B2 · Surface modified sorbent

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a sorbent composition including an adsorbent support; and a metal component comprising a transition metal, wherein the metal component is impregnated on a surface of the adsorbent support; and wherein the metal component effects the removal of sulfur and vanadium from a hydrocarbon fuel. Also disclosed herein is a sorbent composition comprising an adsorbent support, wherein a surface of the adsorbent support has been chemically modified to comprise functional groups; and wherein the adsorbent support effects the removal of sulfur and vanadium from a hydrocarbon fuel.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A sorbent composition comprising:

an organic adsorbent support having a surface area in a range of from about 300 m2/gram to about 800 m2/gram;
and
a metal component comprising a transition metal, wherein the metal component is impregnated on a surface of the adsorbent support;
and
wherein the sorbent composition removes sulfur and vanadium from a hydrocarbon fuel.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/409,041Filed 23 Mar 2009

Published

US 2010/0236989 A123 Sep 2010

Granted

3 Sep 2013

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification27 codes

B01J 20/3265
Non-macromolecular compounds: with an organic functional group containing a metal, e.g. a metal affinity ligand
B01J 20/02
Solid sorbent compositions or filter aid compositions; Sorbents for chromatography; Processes for preparing, regenerating or reactivating thereof:…
B01J 20/0207
Comprising compounds of metals not provided for in B01J20/04: compounds of Sc, Y or Lanthanides
B01J 20/0211
Comprising compounds of metals not provided for in B01J20/04: compounds of Ti, Zr, Hf

Surface modified sorbent

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Abstract

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