Computer Simulations of Photocatalytic Reactors

Photocatalysis has been considered future technology for green energy conversion and environmental purification, including carbon dioxide reduction, water splitting, air/water treatment, antimicrobial purposes. Although various photocatalysts with high activity stability have already found, the commercialization of photocatalytic processes seems to be slow; it is thought that difficulty in scaling up might responsible. Research on design reactors using computer simulations recently intensive. The involve methods hydrodynamics, radiation, mass transport analysis, Monte Carlo method, approximation approach–P1 model, computational fluid dynamics as a complex simulation tool. This review presents all these models, which efficiently used scaling-up reactors. challenging aspects perspectives are also addressed development applied photocatalysis.