The presence of naphthenic acids (NAs) in crude oil is the major cause of corrosion in the refineries and its processing equipment. The goal of this study is to reduce the total acid number (TAN) of NAs by treating them with subcritical methanol in the presence of acidic ionic liquid (AIL) catalysts. Experiments were carried out in an autoclave batch reactor and the effect of different reaction parameters was investigated. It was observed that TAN reduction was positively dependent on the temperature and concentration of the AIL whereas excess of methanol has a negative effect. Approximately 90% TAN reduction was achieved under the optimized reaction conditions using [BMIM]HSO4 as catalyst. It was also perceived from the experimental results that the AILs with longer alkyl chain exhibited higher catalytic activity. The activity and stability of AIL showed that they can be promising catalyst to esterify NAs under subcritical methanol.
Locally available bentonite clay has been modified by magnesium and used to eliminate acid blue 129 from aqueous solutions. The adsorption was studied under different experimental conditions such as dye concentrations, temperature, and shaking time. The adsorption of the dye increased with time and followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic with rate constant “k” 0.126 min-1 at 283 K. Thermodynamic parameters such as ΔH°, ΔS°, and ΔG° were calculated from the slope and intercept of the linear plots of ln K against1/T. Analysis of adsorption results obtained at temperatures of 283, 293, 303, and 313 K showed that the adsorption pattern on bentonite seems to follow Langmuir and Freundlih. The increase in temperature reduces adsorption capacity by magnesium-modified bentonite due to the enhancement of the desorption step in the mechanism. The activation energy of the adsorption process was found to be 3.55 kJ mol-1. The Mg-bentonite showed better adsorption than Ba and Al-bentonite. Our study reveals that abundantly available local clay may be used to eliminate dyes from aqueous solutions.
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