Decolorization and degradation of acid dye with immobilized titania nanoparticles

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• 作者：Mohammad Vaez^a ; ^{m.vaez@modares.ac.ir} ; Abdolsamad Zarringhalam Moghaddam^a ; ^{Zarrin@modares.ac.ir} ; Niyaz Mohammad Mahmoodi^b ; Somayeh Alijani^a
• 关键词：Wastewater treatment ; Titania nanoparticles ; Immobilization ; Sackcloth fiber
• 刊名：Process Safety and Environmental Protection
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：January 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：90
• 期：1
• 页码：56-64
• 全文大小：1249 K

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This paper addresses the decolorization and degradation of acid dye by a heterogeneous photocatalytic process using immobilized nano-sized TiO₂ particles as the photocatalyst. Sackcloth fiber was used as a support to immobilize the nano-sized TiO₂ photocatalyst. The structural properties of the immobilized photocatalyst were characterized by XRD, SEM and EDX. UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy and the measurement of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) were also used for the process performance studies. The XRD results did not show significant changes in the structure of P25 as a consequence of the immobilization procedure. The formation of titania crystallites in the sackcloth fiber was confirmed by SEM/EDX. The photocatalytic activities of TiO₂-coated sackcloth fiber catalyst were evaluated using Acid Black 26 as a model organic contaminant and using UV-A radiation. Experimental results showed that after 60 min, the degradation of Acid Black 26 with the immobilized TiO₂ particles was higher than that with plain TiO₂. Based on the COD results, after 3 h, the TiO₂-coated sackcloth fiber effectively decomposed all of the organic compounds present in dye solution under the studied experimental conditions. The effects of the oxidant H₂O₂, initial dye concentration and pH on the photocatalytic degradation were also investigated. The presence of CO₃^{2?/sup> as a dissolved inorganic anion had the highest inhibitory effect on the decolorization of the dye, when compared with the other anions investigated. Kinetics analysis indicates that the photocatalytic decolorization rate of Acid Black 26 can be described by a pseudo-first-order model.}