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Semiconducting nanomaterials for photocatalytic desulfurization of liquid fuel under sunlight irradiation

  • Zakiullah Zaidi , Yesleen Gupta und Laxmi Gayatri Sorokhaibam ORCID logo EMAIL logo
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International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
Aus der Zeitschrift International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering Band 20 Heft 5

Abstract

Nanomaterials have fascinated the interest of researchers due to their unique electronic, optical, magnetic, and several other properties. Tin sulfide (SnS2) and Zinc oxide (ZnO) have emerged as promising materials for pharmaceutical, textile, environmental remediation, energy conversion, and storage device design. These two compounds were widely used in waste-water treatment for photocatalytic destruction of organic contaminants. However, the degradation of organic sulfur compounds in the liquid fuel desulfurization process has rarely been investigated using such materials. We hereby, present a hydrothermal method for developing the hexagonal lattice structure of SnS2 and ZnO for the deep desulfurization of model liquid fuel. These materials were further characterized through powder X-ray diffraction for phase purity and crystalline, FTIR analysis to validate functional groups, N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm to study surface properties, UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for band gap analysis, scanning and transmission electron microscopy for morphology analysis. The optical behavior reveals that the energy gap for SnS2 and ZnO is 2.09 and 3.21 eV, respectively which corresponds to the visible light absorption range. The photocatalysis experiment was carried out in direct sunlight to degrade 10 ppm DBT in iso-octane. The obtained results show that 60% of the DBT degrade with SnS2 and 15% of the DBT degraded with ZnO in 120 min, with a first-order kinetics rate constant of 0.009 and 0.001 min−1 respectively.

Keywords: desulfurization; dibenzothiophene; liquid fuel; semiconducting nanomaterial
Corresponding author: Laxmi Gayatri Sorokhaibam, Department of Chemistry, Environmental Remediation Laboratory, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, Maharashtra 440010, India, E-mail:

Funding source: DST-SERB

Award Identifier / Grant number: ECR/2017/000221

Acknowledgment

We would like to thank the Department of Chemistry at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, for facilitating instrumentation and research facilities.

  1. Author contributions: Laxmi Gayatri Sorokhaibam: Conceptualization, Supervision, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing, Validation. Zakiullah Zaidi: Experimentation, Investigation, Graph plotting, Writing-original draft. Yesleen Gupta: Catalytic methodology, Experimental assistance & Regeneration.

  2. Research funding: We would like to thank DST-SERB (Grant no. ECR/2017/000221) for financial support.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-04-25
Accepted: 2021-08-12
Published Online: 2021-09-06

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Preface: Special issue dedicated to the International Conference on Reaction Engineering National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India
  4. Special Issue Article
  5. Semiconducting nanomaterials for photocatalytic desulfurization of liquid fuel under sunlight irradiation
  6. Optimization and experimental design by response surface method for reactive extraction of glutaric acid
  7. Equilibrium & kinetic studies of reactive extraction of trans-aconitic acid using sunflower oil with tri-n-octylamine
  8. Simulation of a kinetic model integrated with variable catalyst holdup applied in industrial fluid catalytic cracking risers
  9. Alkaline electro-hydrolysis pretreatment of rice straw for enhanced biogas production under ambient temperature
  10. Acclimatization studies for degradation of Acid Red 3BN dye and its treatment in moving bed biofilm reactor
  11. Value addition study on coker kero for producing alpha olefin and alkyl benzene
  12. Cyclic voltammetry to study kinetics of blast furnace slag and cerium dioxide modified electrode
https://doi.org/10.1515/ijcre-2021-0081
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
desulfurization; dibenzothiophene; liquid fuel; semiconducting nanomaterial

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Preface: Special issue dedicated to the International Conference on Reaction Engineering National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India
  4. Special Issue Article
  5. Semiconducting nanomaterials for photocatalytic desulfurization of liquid fuel under sunlight irradiation
  6. Optimization and experimental design by response surface method for reactive extraction of glutaric acid
  7. Equilibrium & kinetic studies of reactive extraction of trans-aconitic acid using sunflower oil with tri-n-octylamine
  8. Simulation of a kinetic model integrated with variable catalyst holdup applied in industrial fluid catalytic cracking risers
  9. Alkaline electro-hydrolysis pretreatment of rice straw for enhanced biogas production under ambient temperature
  10. Acclimatization studies for degradation of Acid Red 3BN dye and its treatment in moving bed biofilm reactor
  11. Value addition study on coker kero for producing alpha olefin and alkyl benzene
  12. Cyclic voltammetry to study kinetics of blast furnace slag and cerium dioxide modified electrode
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