Wavelength-dependent activity screening of reduced titania for photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid in batch and flow-mode
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Título: | Wavelength-dependent activity screening of reduced titania for photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid in batch and flow-mode |
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Autor/es: | Roibu, Anca | Udroiu, Razvan | Abreu-Jaureguí, Coset | Silvestre-Albero, Joaquín | Andronic, Luminita |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Materiales Avanzados |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Química Inorgánica | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Materiales |
Palabras clave: | Reduced titania | Visible-light | Water treatment | Screening | 3-D printing | Microreactor |
Fecha de publicación: | 9-abr-2024 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. 2024, 12(3): 112752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.112752 |
Resumen: | Water reuse is an emerging solution to decrease pressure on freshwater supplies and meet the increasing demand. This study explores the use of semiconductor photocatalysis for pesticide removal, focusing on extending TiO2 absorption to visible light and accelerating the screening of its wavelength-dependent photocatalytic activity. Grey to black TiO2 photocatalysts with lower direct and indirect band gap energies, up to 1.56 eV and 2.16 eV, respectively, were prepared by the chemical reduction of titania P25. The XPS analysis showed considerable oxygen vacancies, especially at the highest reduction temperature of 400 °C. The fraction of oxygen in the TiO2 lattice decreased from 90 % in the case of P25 to 53% for the photocatalyst obtained at 400 °C. The wavelength-dependent photocatalytic activity for the degradation of imidacloprid was screened in a batch photoreactor. TiO2 P25 presented higher photocatalytic activity than the reduced materials at 400 and 413 nm. At 443 nm, the material reduced at 400 °C exhibited the highest degradation efficiency of 16.8 % compared to 4.2 % as found for P25. Selected photocatalysts were then immobilized as thin films and tested in a 3D-printed flow photoreactor. Wavelength and photocatalyst’s impact on imidacloprid degradation in flow mode aligned with batch mode observations. The film activity remained stable after multiple reaction conditions and at least 150 min of operation. The proposed in-flow screening strategy is a promising approach to rapidly identify visible-light active catalysts, while minimizing the consumption of photocatalytic material and water contaminated with model pollutants. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS−UEFISCDI (grant PN-III-P1–1.1-PD-2021–0387), MINECO (PID2019–108453GB-C21) and MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and EU “NextGeneration”/PRTR (Project PCI2020–111968/ERANET-M/3D-Photocat). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/142228 |
ISSN: | 2213-3437 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jece.2024.112752 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.112752 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - LMA - Artículos de Revistas |
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