Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

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NICKEL- IRON NANOPARTICLES FOR HYDROCRACKING
REACTION OF A HEAVY OIL
Oscar Morelos 1 , J. Jesus Velazquez Salazar 2 , Ruben Mendoza 3 , Benjamín Portales Martínez 4 ,
Jose Aarón Melo Banda 1 , Persi Schacht 5 , Jose Manuel Dominguez 6 , Miguel José Yacamán 3 ,
Adriana Isabel Reyes de la Torre 1
1 Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Centro de Investigación en Petroquímica Secundaria,
Mexico. 2 The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Physics and Astronomy, United
States. 3 University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Physics and Astronomy, United
States. 4 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia - CONACYT, Dirección de Investigación en
Exploración y Producción, Mexico. 5 Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Dirección de
Transformación en Hidrocarburos, Mexico. 6 Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Dirección de
Investigación en Exploración y Producción, Mexico.
Heavy and extra-heavy oils as feedstocks in the refining processes are
alternative petroleum resources because the production of light oils is
constantly decreasing, these oils are solution to this demand. Nanometer-scale
materials have received considerable attention because of its many
applications; as an example of catalysis, this is a vast field of research where
metal nanoparticles are widely used. In this work, bimetallic nickel-iron
nanoparticles (NiFe-NPs) were synthetized by the thermal decomposition
method and used as catalysts in the hydrocracking reaction of a heavy oil. The
nickel (II) acetylacetonate and iron (III) acetylacetonate were decomposed to
respective zerovalent element and stabilized by oleic acid and oleylamine. The
NiFe nanoparticles were characterized by: X-ray diffraction (XRD) to identify the
crystalline phase and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) to investigate the
size and shape of the particles. A batch reactor was used to evaluated the
catalyst activity for hydrocracking (HCK) of heavy oil. The nanoparticles were
mixed with heavy oil and the hydrocracking reaction was performed at 380 °C
and 100 Kg f .cm -2 under stirring. After 60 min, the reactor was rapidly cooled to
terminate the reaction.
Finally, the products were characterized by: SimDis, SARA (saturates, aromatics,
resins, and asphaltenes) and elemental analysis in order to determinate the
conversion.
Acknowledgment:
Financial support was provided by The National Council for Science and
Technology (CONACYT), Mexico. The authors thank also to: Department of