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Decontamination and disinfection of water by solar photocatalysis: Recent overview and trends

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In this article, the authors reviewed the use of sunlight to produce the OH radicals by TiO2 photocatalysis and photo-Fenton process and summarized most of the research carried out related to solar photocatalytic degradation of water contaminants and how it could significantly contribute to the treatment of persistent toxic compounds.
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This article is published in Catalysis Today.The article was published on 2009-09-15. It has received 2541 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photocatalysis & Water treatment.

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Application Photocatalysis for Treatment of Industrial Waste Water—A Short Review

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review has been presented to deliver essential information about dealing with photocatalytic mineralization of pollutants, and different possible routes of effluent treatment have been reviewed.
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Kinetic Studies on Black Light Photocatalytic Ozonation of Diclofenac and Sulfamethoxazole in Water

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the competition between direct ozonation and hydroxyl radical oxidation to eliminate sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and diclofenac (DCF) and the resulting total organic carbon (TOC) was studied.
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Kinetic study of spiramycin removal from aqueous solution using heterogeneous photocatalysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of some key parameters is investigated under low energy of artificial UV light, and the Langmuir-Hinshelwood (L-H) model is successfully used to fit the experimental data, indicating the dependence of the reaction rate on the chemical reaction step.
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Antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria during gatifloxacin degradation by hydroxyl radicals.

TL;DR: The hydroxyl radicals formed in the processes were able to degrade the fluoroquinolone and remove the antimicrobial activity from the aqueous solution and acute toxicity assays showed that the toxicity of the treated solution for V. fischeri increased as the gatifloxacin concentration in the solution decreased.
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Microcystin-LR degradation by solar photo-Fenton, UV-A/photo-Fenton and UV-C/H2O2: a comparative study.

TL;DR: The kinetic study indicated that the solar photo-Fenton and artificial radiation (UV-A) processes were very similar in their efficiency, and the use of sunlight instead of artificial UV radiation significantly reduced the cost of photocatalytic treatment systems.
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Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxides

TL;DR: Film and powders of TiO2-x Nx have revealed an improvement over titanium dioxide (TiO2) under visible light in optical absorption and photocatalytic activity such as photodegradations of methylene blue and gaseous acetaldehyde and hydrophilicity of the film surface.
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Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades

TL;DR: Some of the science and technology being developed to improve the disinfection and decontamination of water, as well as efforts to increase water supplies through the safe re-use of wastewater and efficient desalination of sea and brackish water are highlighted.
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Titanium dioxide photocatalysis

TL;DR: A review of the current progress in the area of TiO 2 photocatalysis, mainly photocatalytic air purification, sterilization and cancer therapy is discussed in this paper.

Titanium dioxide as photocatalysis

TL;DR: A review of the current progress in the area of TiO 2 photocatalysis, mainly photocatalytic air purification, sterilization and cancer therapy is discussed in this article.
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TiO2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena

TL;DR: The field of photocatalysis can be traced back more than 80 years to early observations of the chalking of titania-based paints and to studies of the darkening of metal oxides in contact with organic compounds in sunlight as discussed by the authors.
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