A novel CuWO4/SiO2 heterojunction catalyst was successfully synthesized using a new sulfonamide derivative. The physical characteristics of the prepared samples were investigated by TGA, XRD, FTIR, SEM, UV, PL, and XPS. The prepared catalysts were applied as a nano photocatalyst for photooxidative desulfurization of dibenzothiophene under visible light using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. The photocatalytic oxidative desulfurization performances of the prepared samples were investigated. Various factors as the reaction time, dibenzothiophene concentration, catalyst dose, and the oxidizing agent dose were also studied. The prepared photocatalyst has high desulfurization activity in the removal of DBT under mild conditions. Results showed that the CuWO4/SiO2 exhibited considerably higher activity than neat support SiO2. Such improved photocatalytic activity is mainly attributed to the efficient separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs on CuWO4/SiO2 heterojunction. Moreover, the synergistic effects of this photocatalytic oxidation and the green oxidant hydrogen peroxide played an essential role in desulfurization. The reaction is pseudo-first-order and can reach 98.6 % removal of dibenzothiophene after 70 min and 97.2% after four cycles.
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New Template in Synthesis of Copper Tungsten -Mesoporous Silica for Photo Oxidative-Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene
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Photocatalytic oxidative desulfurization
Mesoporous silica
Visible light
Metal oxide catalyst
Dibenzothiophene
The desulfurization of transportation fuels has attracted much attention by the researchers because the organosulfur compounds present in crude oil cause a serious problem of pollution in the environment. The sulfur-containing compounds during the combustion process are converted to SOX compounds, that compounds are the reason of acid rains, soil pollution, air pollution, poisons the catalyst in industry or car exhaust, and corrosion of the refinery equipment[1][2][3][4]. So, there are great efforts to restrict the sulfur content in the liquid fuel [5]
The traditional process in the desulfurization of liquid fuel is the hydro-desulfurization process; in this process, a great amount of high coast hydrogen was used, high temperature 300–400 oC and high pressure 3–13 MPa. That process is more effective for the light sulfur compounds such as thiols, sulfides, and thiophenes compounds and their derivatives. But; the more complicated sulfur compounds such as benzothiophene, dibenzothiophene, and their derivatives are very difficult to remove by hydro-treating process[6][7].
So, there are other techniques had discovered for fuel desulfurization at mild conditions from temperature and pressure and no hydrogen consumption as; biodesulfurization[8], extractive desulfurization[9], adsorptive desulfurization [10][11], oxidative desulfurization [12][13]and photooxidation [14][15]
Photocatalytic oxidative desulfurization is an effective method for oxidizing the sulfur compounds to sulfoxides or sulfones which are more polar and can easily remove by adsorption or solvent extraction. The photocatalytic process depends on using photocatalyst as (ZnO, MO3, WO3, TiO2, LaVO4, CeO2, etc.,) [16] [17][18]and source of light (visible light or ultraviolet light) [19] [20]to generate energy greater than a bandgap of catalyst to allow charge transfer process. CuO is a monoclinic p-type semiconductor with a band gap of 1.21–1.70 eV [21]. Despite the fact that pure CuO has poor photocatalytic performance due to its low charge transfer rate, prior studies have shown that charge separation and oxygen reduction of photocatalysts created by coupling CuO with other semiconductors has improved[22]. A p-n heterojunction is created when the p-type semiconductor CuO comes into contact with an n-type semiconductor. CuO serves as an electron capture point, preventing electron and hole recombination. As a result, the photocatalytic performance of the p-n heterojunction was enhanced [23]. Despite the high photocatalytic performance of the metal-doped modified p-n heterojunction, it is nevertheless limited by significant agglomeration. Loading on the carrier is one technique to resolve the agglomeration problem. Herein a novel CuO/WO3 heterojunction photocatalyst was prepared and loaded on SiO2 and applied in PODS with dibenzothiophene (DBT) as a model sulfur compound CuO/WO3.
The crystallinity, morphology, pore structure, and acidity of the prepared catalyst are affected by the type of template used in the preparation process[24]. In this work we used a template that has abroad applicability, more familiar, and more economical material. We used a sulfonamide derivative EPBS [25] which was prepared previously by shamsel-Din et al. as a template in preparation a mesoporous silica
2.1. Materials
Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS), and Dibenzothiophene (DBT) from Sigma Aldrich, n-octane (95%) from Samchun, Cu nitrate (CuNO3, 99%) from Merck, and Sodium tungstate (Na2WO4·2H2O) from Panreac Quimica SA were used for sample preparation. H2O2 solution (30% w/w aqueous solution) was used as an oxidizing agent.
2.2. Preparation of the catalyst
2.2.1. Preparation of mesoporous silica
The hydrothermal method was used to prepare mesoporous silica using a sulfonamide derivative (EPBS) as a template and tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), n-butanol as a source of silica and co-solvent, respectively. The preparation method was as follows: EPBS dissolved in hydrochloric acid for 3 hours under stirring, butanol and deionized water were added into it. The solution was stirred for around 1 h and then dropped TEOS and heated up to 318 K. After 2 days the solution was transferred into a Teflon bottle at 373 K. Filtering, washing, and drying at room temperature was carried out. The dried product was finally calcined at 823 K for 5 h. The TEOS/EPBS/HCl/H2O/BuOH molar ratio synthesis gel structure is as follows: (2:1:10:10:3).
2.2.2. Preparation of the CW /SiO2 nanocomposite
A series of CW /SiO2 nanocomposites were synthesized via the ultrasonic-assisted method, and the molar ratio of Cu and W was kept the same. Cupper and Ammonium tungstate is used as cupper and tungsten sources. Ammonium tungstate and cu solutions with different concentrations were added to the as-synthesized nano SiO2 support by the incipient wetness technique. The mixtures were treated with an ultrasonic to disperse Cu and W nanoparticles well and then dried in an oven at 383 K for 12 h. Finally, the samples were calcined at 673 K in open air 2 oC min− 1 for 4 h. The mass percent of CW in CW /SiO2 nanocomposite were controlled to be 5, 15, and 25 Wt%, which were designated as CW(X) /SiO2, and the X (X = 5, 15, 25%).
2.3. Characterization techniques
The DSC-TGA was measured in an N2 atmosphere with a heating rate of 10°C/min using (DSC-TGA SDTQ 600, USA). X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns were detected using XRD instrument (Germany) version X'Pert Pro outfitted with Ni-filtered Cu-K radiation (λ = 0.1542 nm). Quantachrome Nova 3200 instrument (USA) was used for measuring the surface area and pore volume from the BET plot and BJH equation, respectively, based on the N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm. Fourier transforms infrared (FTIR) analysis was recorded on a Bruker Tensor 27 infrared spectrometer (Germany). The UV- reflectance analysis was obtained using a JASCO UV spectrophotometer model V-570 (Japan). Photo-luminance (PL) analysis was analyzed at room temperature using the spectrophotometer model JASCO FP-6500-Japan. Surface morphology images were captured using an emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) model Zeiss ULTRA Plus (Germany), in the nanotechnology center, Egyptian petroleum research institute. SEM photographs were collected at 1.5 KeV and were then analyzed using Smart SEM. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data were obtained on K-ALPHA (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) with monochromatic X-ray Al K-alpha radiation ranging from 10 to 1350 eV, with a spot size of around 400 m at a pressure of 109 bar, full-spectrum pass energy of 200 eV, and a narrow spectrum pass energy of 50 eV.
2.4. Photocatalytic Oxidative DBT
The reaction was carried out under constant stirring in a 25 mL glass vessel containing 10 mL of n-octane solution and DBT (500 ppm) as a fuel model. The mixture was stirred continuously for 30 minutes before illumination to attain adsorption-desorption equilibrium between catalyst and DBT in the dark. After that, 30 Wt% H2O2 as an oxidant was added into the reaction system followed by irradiation with a linear halogen lamp (visible irradiation has a wavelength of 550 nm). DBT concentration was determined by a UV–visible spectrophotometer, Perkin Elmer model Lambda 25 at 313 nm. In this study, several factors were studied, the effect of the light source, catalyst dose, Oxidant dose, and the reaction time. In terms of catalyst recycling, the solid phase could be recovered by centrifugation after the first reaction, and the solid phase was then dried at 80 oC overnight. Then, fresh H2O2 and model oil were added to the reactor for the next run. DBT absorption was measured using a UV-Vis spectrophotometer at λmax = 325 nm. The high absorbance at 325 nm indicates an n–p* excitation comparable to that of the sulfur atom in DBT [26][27]
3.1. Thermal Gravimetric Analysis:
In the thermogravimetric curves Fig. 1(a, b) there are three actions, the first one at 120 oC due to the loss of adsorbed water and alcohol. The second action of weight loss at 395 oC and 300 oC, may be attributed to the decomposition of organic template sulfonamide. The third event at 550 oC is almost due to the dehydroxylation and loss of the strongly bounded water molecules to formation SiO2 and CW(5)/SiO2 as in Figure (1).
3.2. XRD
The X-ray diffraction patterns of the silica at different calcination temperatures (400, 500, and 600 oC) are compared as presented in Figure (2a). the broad peak at 2ᶿ=15-30o is evidence of amorphous silica species. The formation of crystalline CuO and WO3 species were shown in Figure (2b) at samples CW5/SiO2, CW15/SiO2, and CW25/SiO2. the intensity of the crystallites peaks increased with Cu and W loading but at CW25/SiO2 the intensity decreased that may be due to the formation of crystalline species inside the pores.
3.3. N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm
From Figure (3a) all the samples calcined at different temperatures give type IV isotherm characteristics for mesoporous structure materials. But, the materials calcined at 400oC give H3 hysteresis loop does not have a plateau at high values of P/P0 that mean, there is no well-defined mesopore volume[28]. Wheres, the materials calcined at 500 and 600 oC give H2 hysteresis loop that type of hysteresis indicates the ordered structure of silicate/aluminosilicate pore structures, as the sample CW(5)/SiO2 in Figure (3b). As shown in table (1) there is an increase in surface area from 470 m2/gm to 863 m2/gm when increasing the calcination temperature from 400 oC to 500 oC and decrease in pore size from 6.8 nm to 5.4 nm when increasing the calcination temperature to 500 of that may be due to the formation of new pores with smaller size and larger in numbers. While increasing the calcination temperature to 600 oC there is much decrease in surface area and total pore volume to 484 m2/gm and 0.68 cm3/gm respectively. That means the high calcination temperature blocked the pores.
When impregnated CuW on silica calcined at 500 oC with different percentages there is a slight decrease in surface area and a little decrease in total pore volume at sample CW(5)/SiO2 which means the most active surface area on the surface. When increasing the percent of impregnated metal to 15 and 25% there is a decrease in surface area and an increase in pore size which means, there are larger pores that may be formed.
Table (1): Physico-chemical characteristics of SiO2 at different calcination temperatures and different loading percentages
|
Calcination Temp. (oC) |
BET Surface area (m2/gm) |
Total pore volume (cc/gm) |
Average pore size (nm) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
400 |
470 |
0.79 |
6.8 |
|
500 |
863 |
1.10 |
5.4 |
|
600 |
484 |
0.68 |
5.6 |
|
% of CW |
|||
|
5 |
670 |
0.84 |
5.1 |
|
15 |
556 |
1.00 |
7.1 |
|
25 |
452 |
0.81 |
7.2 |
3.4. FTIR:
Figure (4) shows the FTIR data of prepared catalysts. The results revealed that the SiO2 spectra are dominated by three distinct absorption bands originating from Si–O–Si vibrations at 450–1500 cm− 1. The Si-OH bond is responsible for the band at 952 cm− 1, while the remainder is caused by structural deformation within the silica network and non-stoichiometric silicon oxide. The existence of bands originating mostly from CH2 and OH modes due to the presence of organic carbon, as well as bands centred in the 600–700 cm− 1 range related to the Cu–O stretching vibration, was shown by FTIR data for CW samples.
3.5. UV- Visible reflectance
As shown in Figure (5) there is a small beak in the UV wavelength range at 230 nm and there is a sharp variation in the visible wavelength range at 550 nm for SiO2. There is a wide hump at the wavelength range from 450 nm to 600nm at the sample CW(5)/SiO2, at 450 nm for sample CW(15)/SiO2 and there is no variation for the sample CW(25)/SiO2. The direct band-gap is calculated according to the Kubelka-Munk function equation by plotting the square F(R) hυ versus hυ and by the tangent that intercepts the x-axis gives the bandgap. The SiO2 sample gives 3.9 eV and there is an increase in bandgap in the sample CW(25)/SiO2 to 4.5 EV, but the samples CW(15)/SiO2 and CW(5)/SiO2 there is a decrease in bandgap to 3.5 EV and 2.5 eV respectively. From the UV-visible reflectance spectra and the calculated bandgap results, we can conclude that the sample CW(5)/SiO2 is the most active in the visible range.
3.6. PL
Photoluminescence spectroscopy is used to identify the electronic structure of molecules. Where, the intensity of the emission spectra reflects the energy difference between the energy levels and the electronic transition between energy levels, which are unique to each molecule. The photoluminescence of the prepared samples at room temperature was presented in Figure (6) with an excitation wavelength λ = 250 nm. As we show the PL intensity for CW(5) /SiO2 is lower than the other prepared samples which means the recombination of h+ and e− is lower and the catalytic activity is better.
3.7. SEM
The morphology of the prepared samples was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Also, the elemental mapping (SEM/EDS) was performed for silica before and after the impregnation in Figure (7). SEM gives the rock-like morphology for all the prepared samples. The percent of Cu and W are very small on the surface as shown in mapping which means the most percent of metals inside the pores are not on the surface. And that is confirmed by the results of surface area and porosity.
3.7. XPS
XPS analysis was performed to verify the presence of Cu, W, Si, and O components in synthesized samples. The survey spectrum of all prepared samples is shown in Figure (8a). High-resolution XPS spectra of Cu, Si, and O components in CW(5)/SiO2 are displayed in Figs. 8b, c, d, and e, respectively. The XPS results of Cu 2p for CW(5)/SiO2, shown in Figure (8b), exhibited two main peaks of Cu 2p3/2 933.6 eV and Cu 2p½ 953.7 eV, which is consistent with CuO standard spectrum[29]. However, for CW(15)/SiO2 and CW(25)/SiO2, The Cu 2p spectrum exhibits two main peaks and two satellite peaks, indicating that the spectra were formed by a mixture of Cu+ and Cu2+ ions[30]. Figures (8c) depicts the XPS area of W(4f) obtained on CW(5)/SiO2 sample. In this sample, two peaks were detected at 37.1 and 35.2 eV, matching the binding energies of W 4f5/2 and W4f7/2 [31], respectively. This means that the inserted tungsten species have an oxidation state of + 6. The Si 2p spectra revealed two distinguishable peaks located at 103.6, and 104.4 eV on the binding energy spectrum Figure (8d). These positions are consistent with the known binding energy values for Si+ 2, and Si+ 3 bonds [32]. The XPS spectra of C 1s shows well-defined maxima at 286 eV Figure (8e), related carbon covalently bonded to oxygen(C = O) [33]. Figures (8f) depicts the O1s spectrum. It has a peak at 533.5 eV that is connected to C = O bonds [34]
4.1. Effect of Different Catalysts on Sulfur Removal with and without irradiation
Desulfurization of DBT with different prepared catalysts for photocatalytic oxidation with irradiation or without as shown in Figure (9). It shows that the sulfur removal of the system with irradiation was higher than the system without. These results confirmed that solar light is essential for the removal of DBT. Without irradiation, a catalyst can react with H2O2 to generate peroxo-species to oxidize DBT. While the irradiation process, conduction band electrons (e) and valence band holes (h+) were formed. The (e) would react with the H2O2 to give hydroxyl radicals (HO•), which could then oxidize DBT to the corresponding sulfones[35]. heterojunction formation between two metal oxides inhibited photogenerated electron-hole pair recombination, resulting in more photogenerated carriers being generated for PODS due to the rapid transport of photoexcited electron-hole pairs at the heterojunction's interface, greatly improving activity.
[36][37]. Therefore, the heterojunction of CuW-supported catalysts has much higher activities than pure support. The CW(5)/SiO2 has the highest desulfurization rate was approximately 77.84 % within 60 min of visible light irradiation. The high activity of CW(5) /SiO2 might be attributed to the ability of CW(5)/SiO2 to provide sufficient active sites, and sufficient activity for the PODs reaction. However, The CW(15)/SiO2 and CW(25)/SiO2 photocatalyst have a lower desulfurization rate than the CW(5)/SiO2. Since the particles agglomerated at higher total metal loadings (greater than 5% Wt.), the surface area available for the photooxidation process was reduced. As a result, CW(5)/SiO2 was chosen to optimize the photocatalytic oxidation process.
4.2.The effect of various parameters on DBT removal
As illustrated in Figure (10), The catalyst dose, and Oxidant volume, were optimized. Figure (10a) shows the effect of catalyst dose on photocatalytic DBT removal. The % DBT removal increased with an increasing in catalyst weight from 0.003 g to 0.05g and the decrease slows down at 0.1 g. The increase in activity with increasing catalyst dosage is attributed to an increase in the number of active sites for light absorption. But at 0.1 g Catalyst dose, there is a hindrance in light penetration to reach the active catalyst surface and the reactant [38]. As a result, 0.05 g was selected as the optimum amount of catalyst weight. Figure (10b) displays the relationship between the DBT removal and the H2O2 doses. It can be observed that when the H2O2 dose rises, the desulfurization rate initially increases and subsequently falls. As well as excessive hydrogen peroxide can cause H2O molecules to occupy the active sites, resulting in decreased DBT adsorption by the catalyst and a subsequent drop in the DBT removal [39][40][41] DBT is almost completely removed at H2O2 = 1.5 ml for DBT removal 97.2 %. In sum, the optimum conditions for this study are catalyst dose = 0.05 g/10 mL, and Oxidant dose 1.5 ml that was used for further studies.
4.3. The effect of reaction time on DBT removal
Figure (11a) displays the effect of reaction time on DBT removal using CW(5)/SiO2. DBT has almost completely removed 98.6 % removal at 70 min. Further prolonging the reaction time to 90 min, there is no significant increase in catalytic activity. Therefore, 70 min is considered to be the optimum reaction time in the present study.
Reaction kinetics
We studied the kinetics of the photo-oxidative desulfurization of DBT as model sulfur compound over CW(5)SiO2 and the kinetic data were analyzed using two models: pseudo-first order and pseudo-second-order.
Pseudo first order
Ln(qe-qt)=Lnqe - K1t ………………..(1)
Pseudo second order
…………………………..(2)
Where,
qe (mg/gm): the adsorption capacity at equilibrium.
qt (mg/gm): the adsorption capacity at time t (min).
K1:(min-1): the pseudo first order rate constant.
K2 :(gm/mg.min): the pseudo second order rate constant.
t (min): is the illumination duration
when we plot Ln(qe-qt) versus time in equation (1) we can obtain K1 from the slope and qe from the intercept. Where, when we applied the pseudo second order model we plot t/qt versus time t and we can obtain qe from slope and K2 from intercept as shown in Table (2). By comparing the value of qe calculated and qe experimental in case of pseudo first order and pseudo second order model we can concluded that; the photooxidative of DBT over CW/SiO2 is pseudo first order reaction
Table(2):the pseudo first-order and pseudo-second order parameters for photooxidative DBT over CW(5)/SiO2
|
Pseudo first order |
Pseudo second order |
||||||
|
K1 |
qe calc. |
qe exp. |
R2 |
K2 |
qe calc |
qe exp. |
R2 |
|
0.02112
|
18.5
|
20 |
0.98 |
0.001751
|
23 |
20 |
0.97 |
4.4. The effect of recycling times on DBT sulfur removal over CW(5)/SiO2
The stability of CW(5)/SiO2 was studied by testing sequential cycles of the photocatalytic process, as illustrated in Figure (12). After the PODS reaction, the catalyst was filtered, dried at 80 oC, and exposed to the next run. The results show that, after the 4th cycle, the DBT removal remains above 97%. In sum, the catalyst shows no significant loss of activity, which indicates excellent photocatalytic stability. In addition, Figure (12b) shows the IR patterns of the CW(5)/SiO2 before and after PODS. It showed that the used CW(5)/SiO2 had a comparable IR to the fresh one, with the exception that the peak strength was somewhat lower.
The photocatalytic ODS of model oil was investigated over CW-supported SiO2, with hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant. The catalysts were synthesized and thoroughly characterized using a variety of techniques. The research revealed that the CW(5)/SiO2 composite has the highest sulfur removal of model oil and has an efficiency of 98.2 percent under optimal conditions (catalyst dosage = 0.05 g/10 mL, oxidant dose 1.5 mL, and 70 minutes). The pseudo-first-order kinetic model for catalytic ODS was determined. According to the current study, simplicity of operation, low cost, raw material availability, operation in moderate conditions, and high efficiency may be employed as a catalyst in PODS on an industrial scale.
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