Objective Objectives and content Objectives and content Our objectives are the synthesis and development of new catalyst materials, which would contribute to the production of cleaner diesel fuel in two ways by upgrading the polyaromatics components of light cycle oil to linear and branched paraffins of higher cetane number by hydrogenation and ring opening reactions by the production of synthetic diesel components using low-value light olefin raw materials. The catalysts developed will incorporate acid sites of controllable strength (for ring opening and oligomerisation) and transition metal centres (for hydrogenation). Two families of materials will be developed: pillared layered solids, in particular pillared phosphates, synthetic and natural clays; acid and transition metal sites may both be within the pillaring fragment, or the acid site only may be in the pillar and the transition metal at intrapore sites mesoporous oxides and phosphates having a uniform, hexagonal arrangement of pores, prepared by surfactant templating routes. These types of material span a pore diameter from ca. 10 - 50 A, i.e. beyond that of conventional vaporous zeolites. Compounds prepared will be characterised using a range of structural, thermal, spectroscopic and surface analytical techniques. They will be screened for the nature and strength of their acid sites, for their ability to fully hydrogenate polyaromatics and to decyclise saturated polyaromatics. They will be tested on synthetic mixtures and on real feedstocks at the bench-scale by two of the industrial partners. The synthesis of the most successful materials will be scaled-up by the third industrial partner. No catalysts are commercially available for the targeted processes, and yet there are clear strategic reasons for satisfying the increasing demand for diesel whilst, at the same time, respecting progressively more stringent regulations concerning the emission of pollutants (nitrogen and sulfur oxides, particulate...). The partnership is formed of 3 industrial groups (process developer, catalyst manufacturer, enduser) and 3 university teams, one of which is a national consortium of 3 academic groups. It includes 4 EU countries. The industrial groups have stated their interest in fully exploiting cost effective materials resulting from the successful outcome of the programme of research. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsliquid fuelsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compoundsnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0102 - Development of clean production technologies Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE EU contribution No data Address Place Eugène Bataillon CC015 34095 MONTPELLIER France See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INSTM - CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO NAZIONALE PER LA SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI Italy EU contribution No data Address Via le Risorgimento 4 40136 BOLOGNA See on map Total cost No data REPSOL PETROLEO SA Spain EU contribution No data Address 183,Calle Embajadores 183 28045 MADRID See on map Total cost No data SNAMPROGETTI SPA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Maritano 26 20097 SAN DONATO MILANESE See on map Total cost No data Süd-Chemie AG Germany EU contribution No data Address 83052 Bruckmühl See on map Total cost No data Universidad de Malaga Spain EU contribution No data Address 59,Apartado, Campus Teatinos 29071 Málaga See on map Total cost No data
