Assessment and influence of operational parameters on the TiO2 photocatalytic degradation of sodium benzene sulfonate under highly concentrated solar light illumination |
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| Authors: | Tianyong Zhang Toshiyuki Oyama Satoshi Horikoshi Jincai Zhao Hisao Hidaka Nick Serpone |
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| Affiliation: | * Frontier Research Center for the Global Environmental Protection, Meisei University, 2-1-1 Hodokubo, Hino-shi, Tokyo 191-8506, Japan;** The Laboratory of Photochemistry, Center for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China;*** Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3G 1M8 |
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| Abstract: | Sodium benzene sulfonate (BS) was decomposed in aqueous TiO2 dispersions under highly concentrated solar light illumination to examine the photocatalytic characteristics of a parabolic round concentrator (PRC) reactor to degrade the pollutant without visible light absorption. The effects of such operational parameters as initial concentration, volume of the aqueous BS solution, oxygen purging, and TiO2 loading on the kinetics of decomposition of BS were investigated. An effective photodegradation necessitates a suitable combination of initial volume and concentration of BS solution. Relative to atmospheric air, oxygen purging significantly accelerates the degradation process at high initial concentrations of BS (0.40 mM or 1.0 mM). Optimal TiO2 loading was 9 g l−1, greater than previously reported. Elimination of TOC (total organic carbon) followed pseudo first-order kinetics in the initial stages of the photodegradation process. The relative photonic efficiency for the photodegradation of BS is ζrel=1.0. |
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