[01] Mohammad Amin Seifi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shahreza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran. [02] Farshad Farahbod, Department of Chemical Engineering, Firoozabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad, Iran.

Today, in the young field of nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech"), scientists and engineers are taking control of atoms and molecules individually, manipulating them and putting them to use with an extraordinary degree of precision. Nano catalytic sulphur removal process is surveyed in this paper, experimentally. The qualification of sulphur removal from liquefied natural gas process is investigated due to catalytic bed geometries which contains nano aluminium and copper oxide and operating conditions. The purpose of experiments is finding the conditions which lead to the lowest amount of sulphur content in the out stream.

Operating Pressure, Operating Temperature, Bed, Dimensionless Group, Performance

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