Title
Intensification of photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes and phenol by scale-up and numbering-up of meso- and microfluidic TiO<inf>2</inf> reactors for wastewater treatment
Date Issued
01 September 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
de Sá D.
Vasconcelos L.
de Souza J.
Marinkovic B.
Del Rosso T.
Fulvio D.
Massi A.
Pandoli O.
PUC-Rio
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
A new experimental set-up permitting scale-up and serial internal numbering-up of meso- and micro photocatalytic systems, respectively, was developed to compare their photodegradation efficiency, by using of a commercially avaliable TiO2 (P25), against Rhodamine B (RB) and Methylene Blue (MB) under UV irradiation in water. A circular photocatalytic unit constituted of TiO2 embedded into PDMS was the basic unit of the meso and microchemical reactors. Different volumetric capacity, from 10 μL to 1000 μL, and different flow rates (0.05–1.0 mL min−1) were evaluated to understand the best approach to design a more efficient fixed bed photoreactor for photocatalytic degradation. The multi-photocatalytic microreactor system with the best performace, built-up by plugging six modular microreactor plates (M6), was tested for photooxidition of phenol under UV irradiation, as well. P25 catalyst showed different photodegradation efficiency depending on the photocatalytic meso- and microreactor design and flow parameters. The photocatalytic efficiency for the meso- and microdevices was evaluated by figure-of-merit electrical energy per order (EEO) and apparent quantum yield. The numbered-up M6 system had a lower electrical energy consumption compared with others. The microfluidic device M6 was able to achieve 97% of photodegradation of MB and RB (1.2 10−5 mol L−1) in 1 h compared to 96% conversion of the best mesoreactor in 16 h, while reached a total mineralization of phenol (1.2 10−4 mol L−1) to CO2 and H2O in 6 h.
Start page
59
End page
75
Volume
364
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85047805530
Source
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
ISSN of the container
10106030
Sponsor(s)
We gratefully acknowledge FAPERJ (E-26/010.001607/2016) and CNPq for funding the research and the undergraduate student fellowship of L. E. Vasconcellos. O.P. is grateful to FAPERJ for the JCNE fellowship (PhD student, D. S. de Sá, is grateful to CNPq for a post-graduate fellowship. We thank L. M. de Lima for the assistance during the photodegradation process evaluation. B.A. Marinkovic is grateful to CNPq for research productivity scholarship.
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