abstract
The porous metal-organic framework UiO-66(Zr) obtained via non modulated synthesis, has revealed to be a notable heterogeneous catalyst, enabling extremely fast and very efficient desulfurization of a multicomponent model diesel and also a real diesel fuel.
keywords
METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS; OXIDATIVE DESULFURIZATION PROCESS; SOLVENT-EXTRACTION; IONIC LIQUIDS; GAS OIL; CHEMICAL OXIDATION; LIGHT OILS; FUELS; POLYOXOMETALATE; MIL-101
subject category
Chemistry
authors
Granadeiro, CM; Ribeiro, SO; Karmaoui, M; Valenca, R; Ribeiro, JC; de Castro, B; Cunha-Silva, L; Balula, SS
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Groups
Projects
Desulfurization of diesel using green heterogeneous oxidative catalytic processes (PTDC/EQU-EQU/121677/2010)
Design of Metal-Organic Framework materials from the micro- to nano-scale: optimization of gas adsorption and catalytic properties (PTDC/CTM/100357/2008)
acknowledgements
The work was partly financed by FEDER (Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional) through COMPETE (Programa Operacional Factores de Competividade) and by national funds through the FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia) within the projects FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-020658 (FCT ref. PTDC/EQU-EQU/121677/2010), FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-013026 (FCT ref. PTDC/CTM/100357/2008) and REQUIMTE/LAQV (Ref. FCT UID/QUI/50006/2013), and the fellowships SFRH/BPD/73191/2010 (to CMG), SFRH/BD/95571/2013 (to SOR) and SFRH/BPD/74477/2010 (to MK).