Photocatalytic Oxidation of Natural Organic Matter in Water

Increased concentrations of natural organic matter (NOM), a complex mixture substances found in most surface waters, have recently emerged as substantial environmental issue. NOM has significant variety molecular and chemical properties, which combination with its varying both geographically seasonally, introduce the opportunity for an array interactions environment. Due to observable increase amounts water treatment supply sources, improved effort remove naturally-occurring organics from drinking supplies, well municipal wastewater effluents, is required continue development highly efficient versatile technologies. Photocatalysis received increasing interest around world, especially during last decade, several investigated processes been regularly reported be amongst best performing technologies supplies mitigate formation disinfection by products. Consequently, this overview highlights recent research developments on application photocatalysis degrade means TiO2-based heterogeneous homogeneous photocatalysts. Analytical techniques quantify hybrid photocatalytic are also reviewed discussed.