while embodiments of the present disclosure are described in connection with the above embodiments and the corresponding text and figures , there is no intent to limit the claims to the embodiments in these descriptions . on the contrary , the intent is to cover all alternatives , modifications , and equivalents included within the spirit and scope of embodiments of the present disclosure . the present invention will be further illustrated with reference to the following examples , but not limited thereby . 0 . 80 kg of expanded perlite ( available from worldminerals , m27 , having a dry basis of 0 . 79 kg ), 0 . 71 kg of kaolin ( available from suzhou kaolin colo ., s1 , having a dry basis of 0 . 59 kg ), 1 . 15 kg of alumina ( available from shandong aluminum corporation , having a dry basis of 0 . 78 kg ) and 9 . 0 kg of acidic water ( decationized water , ph 3 ) were mixed under stirring , and subsequently added with 110 ml of 30 % hcl ( chemically pure grade , available from beijing chemical works ) under stirring for acidifying for 1 hour . thereafter , 3 . 5 kg of powder zinc oxide was added , mixed and stirred for 1 hour to obtain a carrier slurry . the slurry was spray dried using a niro bowen nozzle tower ™ spray drier , with a pressure of 8 . 5 - 9 . 5 mpa , an inlet temperature of below 500 ° c ., and an outlet temperature of about 150 ° c . the microsphere thus produced was dried at 180 ° c . for 1 hour , and then calcinated at 635 ° c . for 1 hour to obtain an adsorbent carrier . the adsorbent carrier was loaded in a fluidized - bed , and being passed by high purity nitrogen gas carrying nickel tetracarbonyl ( 50 ° c .) for 6 hours . then the adsorbent carrier loaded with nickel was taken out and calcinated in the air at 650 ° c . for 1 hour to produce an adsorbent precursor . the adsorbent precursor was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 425 ° c . for 2 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent a1 . the adsorbent a1 is composed of 57 . 9 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 7 wt . % of alumina binder , 12 . 8 wt . % of expanded perlite , 9 . 6 wt . % of kaolin , and 8 . 0 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). replacing the adsorbent carrier with the precursor of the adsorbent a1 , the process of introducing nickel by vapor adsorbent deposition was repeated . then the adsorbent precursor was calcinated at 635 ° c . in the air for 1 hour to produce an adsorbent precursor , which was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 410 ° c . for 4 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent a2 . the adsorbent a2 is composed of 54 . 5 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 1 wt . % of alumina binder , 12 . 3 wt . % of expanded perlite , 9 . 2 wt . % of kaolin , and 11 . 9 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). the adsorbent was prepared as follows : 3 . 5 kg of powder zinc oxide ( available from beijing chemical works ) and 4 . 97 kg of deionized water were mixed , and subsequently stirred for 30 minutes to obtain a zinc oxide slurry . 0 . 61 kg of diatomite ( available from beijing chemical reagent co ., ltd , having a dry basis of 0 . 58 kg ), 0 . 96 kg of rectorite ( available from qilu petrochemical catalyst company , having a dry basis of 0 . 80 kg ), alumina ( from shandong aluminum corporation , having a dry basis of 0 . 82 kg ), and 5 . 0 kg of acidic water ( decationized water , ph 3 ) were mixed under stirring , and then added with 115 ml of 30 % hcl ( chemically pure grade , available from beijing chemical works ) under stirring for acidifying for 1 hour . thereafter , the above powder zinc oxide was added , mixed and stirred for 1 hour to obtain a carrier slurry . the slurry was spray dried using a niro bowen nozzle tower ™ spray drier , with a pressure of 8 . 5 - 9 . 5 mpa , an inlet temperature of below 500 ° c ., and an outlet temperature of about 150 ° c . the microspheres thus produced were dried at 180 ° c . for 1 hour , and then calcinated at 635 ° c . for 1 hour to obtain an adsorbent carrier . the adsorbent carrier was loaded in a fluidized - bed , and being passed by high purity nitrogen gas carrying nickel tetracarbonyl ( 50 ° c .) for 6 hours . then the adsorbent carrier was calcinated in the air at 630 ° c . for 1 hour to produce an adsorbent precursor . the adsorbent precursor was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 425 ° c . for 2 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent a3 . the adsorbent a3 is composed of 57 . 9 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 7 wt . % of alumina binder , 9 . 5 wt . % of diatomite , 12 . 9 wt . % of rectorite , and 8 . 0 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). the adsorbent carrier was prepared according to the method of example 1 with the following differences . 3 . 24 kg of the adsorbent carrier ( having a dry basis of 3 . 0 kg ) was impregnated with 1 . 03 kg of nickel nitrate hexahydrate and 0 . 2 kg of deionized water . the mixture thus obtained was dried at 180 ° c . for 4 hours , and calcinated in the air at 635 ° c . for 1 hour to obtain an adsorbent precursor . the adsorbent precursor was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 425 ° c . for 2 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent b1 . the adsorbent b1 is composed of 57 . 9 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 7 wt . % of alumina binder , 12 . 8 wt . % of expanded perlite , 9 . 6 wt . % of kaolin , and 8 . 0 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). the adsorbent carrier was prepared according to the method of example 2 with the following differences . 3 . 24 kg of the adsorbent carrier ( having a dry basis of 3 . 0 kg ) was impregnated with 1 . 03 kg of nickel nitrate hexahydrate and 0 . 2 kg of deionized water . the mixture thus obtained was dried at 180 ° c . for 4 hours , and calcinated in the air at 635 ° c . for 1 hour to obtain an adsorbent precursor . the adsorbent precursor was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 425 ° c . for 2 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent b2 . the adsorbent b2 is composed of 54 . 5 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 1 wt . % of alumina binder , 12 . 3 wt . % of expanded perlite , 9 . 2 wt . % of kaolin , and 11 . 9 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). the adsorbent carrier was prepared according to the method of example 3 with the following differences . 3 . 24 kg of the adsorbent carrier ( having a dry basis of 3 . 0 kg ) was impregnated with 1 . 61 kg of nickel nitrate hexahydrate and 0 . 3 kg of deionized water . the mixture thus obtained was dried at 180 ° c . for 4 hours , and calcinated in the air at 635 ° c . for 1 hour to obtain an adsorbent precursor . the adsorbent precursor was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere at 425 ° c . for 2 hours to produce an adsorbent , which is reported as adsorbent b3 . the adsorbent b3 is composed of 57 . 9 wt . % of zinc oxide , 12 . 7 wt . % of alumina binder , 9 . 5 wt . % of diatomite , 12 . 9 wt . % of rectorite , and 8 . 0 wt . % of nickel ( as nickel oxide ). in order to differentiate the above different adsorbents , the crystal phase compositions of the pre - reduced adsorbents a1 - a3 and b1 - b3 were measured and values of η calculated . the crystal phase was analyzed using x - ray diffraction and phase filtering ( r . v . siriwardane , j . a . poston , c . evans , jr . ind . eng . chem . res . 33 ( 1994 ) 2810 - 2818 ), an adapted form of rietveld modeling ( riqas rietveld analysis , operators manual , material data , inc ., berkley , calif . ( 1999 )) and calculating the crystal phase compositions by fitting methodology . all x - ray diffraction measurements were taken using a philips xrg 3100 generator equipped with a long fine focus copper x - ray source powered at 40 kv & amp ; 30 ma ; philips 3020 digital goniometer & amp ; philips 3710 mpd control computer ; and a kevex psi peltier cooled silicon detector . the kevex detector was operated with a kevex 4601 ion pump controller , kevex 4608 peltier current supply , kevex 4621 detector bias , kevex 4561a pulse processor , and kevex 4911 - a single channel analyzer . diffraction patterns were acquired using philips apd version 4 . 1c software . all rietveld calculations were performed using material data , inc . riqas version 3 . 1c software ( outokumpu hsc chemistry for windows : users guide , outokumpo research oy , pori , finland ( 1999 )). the programs were run under the ms windows ® 2000 operating system using an intel pentium ® iv 2 . 0 ghz class personal computer equipped with 512 mb of ram . the crystal phase compositions of different samples were shown in table 1 . the effective content of ni was analyzed by method h 2 - tpd , measured on autochem ii 2920 adsorption instrument of micromeritics co . the adsorbent samples were reduced by hydrogen gas at 450 ° c . for 1 hour , cooled to ambient temperature and purged for 30 min , and then purged with high pure n 2 to reach a stable baseline , and finally heated to 650 ° c . the signals were recorded by thermal conductivity detector and the total amount of the adsorbed hydrogen was calculated by peak area . then the amount of ni adsorbed with hydrogen atom , i . e . the effective nickel content was calculated based on the relationship of one hydrogen atom being adsorbed by on nickel atom . said results are shown in table 1 . as can be seen from table 1 , nio in adsorbents a1 and a3 is in a monolayer dispersion , and as such cannot be reflected in the crystal phase composition . that is , the percentage of ni in the crystal phase equals to 0 , and thus η ni = 0 . adsorbent a2 has a η ni of 0 . 42 , indicating the effective nickel content is higher than the prior art ( η ni of comparative adsorbents b1 , b2 and b3 are higher than 1 ). also can be seen from the effective content , the adsorbents prepared according to the present invention had an effective nickel content around 7 . 5 wt %, while the adsorbents prepared by the prior art had an effective nickel content no more than 5 . 5 wt %. the strength of adsorbents prepared by different methods are evaluated by vertical tube abrasion method , which method may refer to method ripp 29 - 90 in analysis in petrochemicals , ripp test methods said results are reported in table 2 . the following methods were employed to evaluate the desulfurization performance of these adsorbents . aging treatment : the adsorbent was reduced under hydrogen atmosphere of 0 . 1 mpa at 420 ° c . for 3 hours till all nickel contained in the adsorbent was reduced to zero valence . then a gas mixture of 10 vol . % h 2 s + 10 vol . % h 2 + 80 vol . % n 2 was passed through the adsorbent which is kept at 420 ° c . for 2 hours . purging with nitrogen to remove hydrogen in the system for 0 . 5 hour , and thereafter introducing air onto the adsorbent and keep the adsorbent at 510 ° c . for 2 hours for regeneration . repeats this reduction - sulfuration - oxidative regeneration processes for three times . a fixed - bed microreaction apparatus was used to evaluate the desulfurization performance . the material for adsorbing reaction is catalytic cracking gasoline having a sulfur content of 800 ppm . the adsorbing test was performed under nitrogen atmosphere at the weight space velocity of 4 h − 1 . the sulfur contents of the gasoline after reaction are reported in table 2 .