Air pollution by nitrogen oxides represents a serious environmental problem in urban areas where numerous sources of these pollutants are concentrated. One approach to reduce the concentration of these air pollutants is their light-induced oxidation in the presence of molecular oxygen and a photocatalytically active building material which uses titanium dioxide as the photocatalyst. Herein, res...

The liquid-phase photocatalytic oxidation of l-octanol in oxygenated acetoniaile on highly dispersed titanium oxide catalysts anchored onto transparent Vycor glass was compared with that obtained on the standard TiO2 powder. The isolated titanium oxide species anchored onto transparent Vycor glass are responsible for its high photocatalytic activity both in the present liquid-phase oxidation of...

A combination of photocatalytic oxidation experiments and quantum mechanical calculations was used in order to describe the mechanism and the nature of the photocatalytic oxidation reactions of dinitronaphthalane isomers and interprete their reactivities within the framework of the Density Functional Theory (DFT). The photocatalytic oxidation reactions of three dinitronaphthalene isomers, 1,3-d...

The investigation of the water oxidation mechanism on photocatalytic semiconductor surfaces has gained much attention for its potential to unlock the technological limitations of producing H2 from carbon-free sources, i.e., H2O. This review seeks to highlight the available scientific and fundamental understanding towards the water oxidation mechanism on ZnO surfaces, as well as present a summar...

The problem of textile dye pollution has been addressed by various methods, mainly physical, chemical, biological, and acoustical. These methods mainly separate and/or remove the dye present in water. Recently, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have been focused for removal of dye from waste water due to their advantages such as ecofriendly, economic and capable to degrade many dyes or organic...

conclusions application of zinc oxide as the photocatalyst can be effective in the removal process. background one of the important achievements of the past decade was the rapid growth of industries and accordingly production of various chemical compounds. objectives this study presents a combined system of photocatalytic oxidation and absorption solution to remove nitrogen oxides from polluted...

introduction: humic acid (ha) is one the original disinfection byproducts processors in water treatment. so, removing it is necessary before water chlorination. in the present study, photodegredation of humic acid in water using ag/zno nano particle under uvc irradiation in batch system was investigated. material and methods: photocatalytic study was carried out to evaluate the effect of uvc (1...

CuFe2O4 nanocrystallines with cubic jacobsite structure have been obtained by heat treatment of the coprecipitation product, which were synthesized by the reaction of Cu(2+) ions and Fe(3+) ions under alkaline conditions. Reported here is the first copper-based catalyst for photocatalytic water oxidation using [Ru(bpy)3]Cl2 as the photosensitizer and Na2S2O8 as the sacrificial electron acceptor...

This work explores thoroughly the reaction network of the partial oxidation of phenylmethanol at the TiO(2)-solvent interface under photocatalytic conditions by using a first-principles continuum solvation method. We demonstrate that the photocatalytic oxidation of phenylmethanol has a complex reaction network with dual pathways. The dimer pathway dominates the mechanism under aerobic condition...

The oxidation of hypophosphite to phosphate is the key to recover the phosphorus resource from the hypophosphite wastewater. In the present work, Ti4O7/g-C3N4 composites were synthesized at two different temperatures (100 and 160°C) and their performance on photocatalytic oxidation of hypophosphite under visible light irradiation and the corresponding mechanism were evaluated. A hydrolysis meth...