Poly N-(2-aminoethyl) acrylamide-NiO composite as novel efficient photocatalyst for desulfurization of diesel fuel under visible-light irradiation | ||||
Egyptian Journal of Chemistry | ||||
Article 62, Volume 64, Issue 10, October 2021, Page 6029-6041 PDF (731.22 K) | ||||
Document Type: Review Articles | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2021.74733.3681 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Usama Abdallah Metwally 1; Asmaa S Morshedy2; Ahmed El Naggar 3; Nour El-Din Ahmed4; Emad soliman5; Ahmad Hashem 6 | ||||
1Department Manager- Cairo oil refining company- Cairo - Egypt | ||||
2Refining,Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute,EPRI, Cairo ,Egypt. | ||||
3Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI) | ||||
4Faculty of science, Ain shams University, Organic chemistry department, Abassia, Cairo, 11566 Egypt | ||||
5Polymeric Materials research department, Advanced technology's and new materials research institute, new borg elarab city, Alexandria, Egypt | ||||
6Chemistry Dept, Science Faculty, Ain Shams Univ, | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The disposal of sulfur compounds from fossil fuels in general and diesel fuels particularly has been stimulated worldwide due to their harmful environmental emissions during the combustion process. Several desulfurization techniques can be employed; however, photocatalytic desulfurization can be considered as the safest and cost-effective route to achieve such goal. This study introduces a novel hybrid photocatalyst made of coupling both NiO and poly-acrylamide based polymer. Such composite could have improved photo-luminance (PL) properties than that of pure NiO. Additionally, the combination of NiO (which is UV-active photocatalyst) with polymer could result in producing visible-light effective composite. These optical properties had progressively improved the photocatalytic desulfurization performance of this composite. It could attain a sulfur removal of 60 % from a diesel fuel fraction contains 12300 ppm of sulfur. This rate of sulfur removal could be counted as an extremely high and of obvious advancements in the field of diesel fuel desulfurization. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Diesel fuel production; Desulfurization; Photocatalysts | ||||
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