National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Yuji Yoshimura

Makoto Toba

Takashi Matsui

Nobuyuki Matsubayashi

Takehisa Mochizuki

Shih-Yuan Chen

Yoko Abe

To provide a catalyst for production of a biodiesel fuel, which is capable of producing a biodiesel fuel with high selectivity, at a high yield, and at a low cost even in the presence of a water content and a free fatty acid, and a biodiesel fuel production method using the catalyst. Use of a titanium-containing mesoporous silica containing Ti and Si as skeleton constituent elements and having a pore diameter of 5 nm or greater as a transesterification catalyst enables a biodiesel fuel to be produced with high selectivity at a high yield through transesterification between an oil and an alcohol.

Transesterification catalyst and method for producing biodiesel fuel using transesterification catalyst

Provided is a method for producing biodiesel fuel having an excellent oxidative stability and fluidity at low temperature, wherein the method provides selective hydrogenation of a poly-unsaturated fatty acid alkyl ester to the mono-unsaturated fatty acid alkyl ester while inhibiting the formation of the trans-isomer, and a biodiesel fuel composition. In the method for producing biodiesel fuel, a fatty acid alkyl ester prepared from fat and/or waste edible oil by transesterification reaction, and/or (2) a fatty acid alkyl ester treated by esterification reaction of a fatty acid is hydrogenated in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst containing at least one of noble metals selected from those of Groups 8-10 in the periodic table under low hydrogen pressure.

Method for producing biodiesel fuel and biodiesel fuel composition

A porous inorganic oxide support comprising an oxygen-containing carbonaceous material supported thereon, preferably a porous inorganic oxide support wherein the oxygen-containing carbonaceous material is a carbide of an oxygen-containing organic compound, wherein the ratio of the supported carbon amount with respect to the mass of the support for preparing the catalyst is from 0.05 to 0.2, the atomic ratio of the supported hydrogen amount with respect to the supported carbon amount is from 0.4 to 1.0, and the atomic ratio of the supported oxygen amount with respect to the supported carbon amount is from 0.1 to 0.6; and a hydrotreating catalyst of catalytic cracking gasoline which comprises the support and a catalyst containing a Group 8 metal of the periodic table, molybdenum (Mo), phosphorus and sulfur which is supported on the support are useful as a desulfurization catalyst of, for example, catalytic cracking gasoline at a hyperdesulfurized level, because of having functions of suppressing the hydrogenation activity of olefins and minimizing the decrease in the octane number even under reaction conditions with a high desulfurization ratio.

Porous inorganic oxide support and hydrotreating catalyst of catalytic cracking gasoline using the same

A hydrotreating catalyst comprising a Group 8 metal of the periodic table, molybdenum (Mo), phosphorus and sulfur, wherein the average coordination number [N(Mo)] of the molybdenum atoms around the molybdenum atom is from 1.5 to 2.5 and the average coordination number [N(S)] of the sulfur atoms around the molybdenum atom is from 3.5 to 5.0 when MoSstructure in the catalyst is measured in accordance with extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yuji Yoshimura