Patent ID: 8158843

Claim:
A process for removing sulphur compounds from a hydrocarbon fuel feedstock to obtain a desulfurized fuel having a sulfur content of less than 5 ppm comprising, passing a hydrocarbon fuel feedstock wherein the fuel feedstock is selected from the group consisting of gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, jet fuel and middle distillate fuel over a first absorbent bed of a plurality of adsorbent beds to adsorb sulfur compounds in the fuel feedstock onto the first adsorbent bed and to generate desulfurized fuel, redirecting the fuel feedstock onto another of the adsorbent beds to enable continuation of generation of desulfurized fuel wherein each of the adsorbent beds is H 2 PdCl 4 , regenerating the first adsorbent bed by using a solvent to elute adsorbed sulfur compounds from the first bed to generate an eluate of sulphur compounds and solvent, treating the eluate to remove the solvent and to yield a concentrated sulphur fraction, treating the concentrated sulphur fraction with hydrogen to generated a hydrodesulfurized product, and blending the hydrodesulfurized product with the desulfurized fuel.