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Currently, hydrodesulfurization is regarded as a state-of-art technology for the desulfurization of fuel oil. However, due to the stringent legislation of the fuel oil, the deep desulfurization technology is urgent to be developed. Adsorptive desulfurization method is promising due to the high selectivity and easy operation. The development of efficient adsorbent is important to advance this technology into industrial application. In this work, the five types of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), including Cu-BTC, UMCM-150, MIL-101(Cr), UIO-66, and Cu-ABTC were synthesized for the adsorption of dibenzothiophene (DBT), a typical organic sulfur compound in the fuel oil. The experimental results revealed that the adsorption capacity of the five MOFs followed the order of Cu-ABTC, UMCM-150, Cu-BTC, MIL-101(Cr), and UIO-66, which adsorption capacities were 46.2, 34.2, 28.3, 26.3, and 22.0 mgS\/g, respectively. The three types of Cu-based MOFs such as Cu-ABTC, UMCM-150, and Cu-BTC outperformed the Cr-based MOFs, MIL-101, and Zr-based MOFs, UIO-66. Since the surface area and pore volumes of the Cu-based MOFs were not the greatest among the tested five MOFs, the physical properties of the MOFs were not the only limited factor for the DBT adsorption. The \u03c0-complexation between DBT and linkers\/metal in the MOFs was also important. Kinetic analysis showed that the DBT adsorption onto the five tested MOFs follows the pseudo-second-order kinetics, confirming that the chemical \u03c0-complexation was also contributed to the DBT adsorption. Furthermore, the operation parameters such as oil-adsorbent ratio, initial sulfur concentration and adsorption temperature for the DBT adsorption onto Cu-ABTC were optimized to be 100:1 g\/g, 1000 mgS\/L and 30 \u00b0C, respectively. 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