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PROCESS SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 265-270Publisher
INST CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2015.03.013
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Iodine doped; Photocatalysis; Sunlight; Bisphenol A
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China, Taiwan [NSC 101-2221-E224-038-MY3]
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Highly photoactive iodine-doped titanium dioxide (I-doped TiO2) photocatalysts were synthesized to degrade aqueous bisphenol A (BPA) under irradiation by visible light and sunlight. The band gap energies of TiO2 and I-doped TiO2 (I/Ti mole ratio = 0.5%) were 3.01 and 3.04, and the BPA photodegradation rate constants were 1.61, and 5.11 h(-1), respectively. The most probable reaction mechanism was proposed to involve IO4- and IO3- as electron acceptors that generate an inductive effect, increasing the photocatalytic efficiency of TiO2. Results indicated that I-doped TiO2 not only acted favorably as a photocatalyst, but also exhibited considerable mineralization effects. In addition, a recycling test after ten experiments demonstrated the stability and reusability of the photocatalyst. (C) 2015 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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