Original articleOxidative desulfurization of diesel by potato based-carbon as green support for H5PMo10V2O40: Efficient composite nanorod catalyst

The C@POM (carbon@polyoxometalate) containing H3PMo12O40 (PMo12), H5PMo10V2O40 (PMo10V2), H6PMo9V3O40 (PMo9V3), H7PMo8V4O40 (PMo8V4), H3PW12O40 (PW), and H4SiW12O40 (SiW) were prepared from natural potato as green, and cheap catalyst support source. The C@PMo10V2 was found to be a unique, effective, and eco-friendly catalyst for selective oxidation of sulfides, using 30% aq. H2O2. C@PMo10V2 composite was characterized by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrophotometry, zeta sizer, and zeta potential. The XRD results show that during immobilization PMo10V2 on the carbon catalyst support (CCS), the crystallite structure of PMo10V2 and CCS was not changed. The SEM results show that PMo10V2 crystals deposited on the surface CCS rods as composite nanorod structure. A variety of sulfides, sulfur-containing model and real oil were oxidized with the C@PMo10V2/H2O2 at room temperature. Recovered catalyst show excellent activity for at least four repeating cycles.