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Title: | Solar regeneration of powdered activated carbon impregnated with visible-light responsive photocatalyst : factors affecting performances and predictive model | Authors: | Yap, Pow-Seng Lim, Teik-Thye |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Yap, P.-S. & Lim, T.-T. (2012). Solar regeneration of powdered activated carbon impregnated with visible-light responsive photocatalyst: Factors affecting performances and predictive model. Water Research, 46(9), 3054-3064. | Series/Report no.: | Water research | Abstract: | This study demonstrated a green technique to regenerate spent powdered activated carbon (AC) using solar photocatalysis. The AC was impregnated with a photocatalyst photoexcitable under visible-light irradiation to yield a solar regenerable composite, namely nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide (N-TiO2/AC). This composite exhibited bifunctional adsorptive-photocatalytic characteristics. Contaminants of emerging environmental concern, i.e. bisphenol-A (BPA), sulfamethazine (SMZ) and clofibric acid (CFA) which exhibited varying affinities for AC were chosen as target pollutants. The adsorption of BPA and SMZ by the N-TiO2/AC was significantly higher than that of CFA. The performance of solar photocatalytic regeneration (SPR) of the spent N-TiO2/AC composite generally increased with light intensity, N-TiO2 loading and temperature. The regeneration efficiency (RE) for CFA-loaded spent composite was the highest compared to the other pollutant-loaded spent composites, achieving 77% within 8 h of solar irradiation (765 W m−2). The rate-limiting process was pollutant desorption from the interior AC sorption sites. A kinetic model was developed to predict the transient concentration of the sorbate remaining in the spent composite during SPR. Comparison studies using solvent extraction technique indicated a different order of RE for the three pollutants, attributable to their varying solubilities in the aqueous and organic solvents. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96224 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10260 |
ISSN: | 0043-1354 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.watres.2012.03.008 | Rights: | © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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