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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.About:
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.read more
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Recent Developments in Photocatalytic Water Treatment Technology: A Review
TL;DR: For the first time, a multi-variables optimization approach is described to determine the optimum operation parameters so as to enhance process performance and photooxidation efficiency in the photocatalytic water treatment process.
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A review on the visible light active titanium dioxide photocatalysts for environmental applications
Miguel Pelaez,Nicholas T. Nolan,Suresh C. Pillai,Michael K. Seery,Polycarpos Falaras,Athanassios G. Kontos,Psm Dunlop,Jwj Hamilton,John Byrne,Kevin E. O'Shea,Mh. Entezari,Dionysios D. Dionysiou +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of different strategies to modify TiO2 for the utilization of visible light, including non metal and/or metal doping, dye sensitization and coupling semiconductors are discussed.
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A review on g-C3N4-based photocatalysts
TL;DR: In this paper, the fundamental mechanism of heterogeneous photocatalysis, advantages, challenges and the design considerations of g-C3N4-based photocatalysts are summarized, including their crystal structural, surface phisicochemical, stability, optical, adsorption, electrochemical, photoelectrochemical and electronic properties.
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Advanced Nanoarchitectures for Solar Photocatalytic Applications
TL;DR: UV-Visible ار راد ن .د TiO2 ( تیفرظ راون مان هب نورتکلا یاراد لماش VB و ) رگید اب لاقتنا VB (CO2) .
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Combination of Advanced Oxidation Processes and biological treatments for wastewater decontamination—A review
TL;DR: The main conclusions arrived at from the overall assessment of the literature are that more work needs to be done on degradation kinetics and reactor modeling of the combined process, and also dynamics of the initial attack on primary contaminants and intermediate species generation.
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Solar heterogeneous and homogeneous photocatalysis as a pre-treatment option for biotreatment
Isabel Oller,Pilar Fernández-Ibáñez,Manuel I. Maldonado,L.A. Pérez-Estrada,Wolfgang Gernjak,Cesar Pulgarin,Paula C. Passarinho,Sixto Malato +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a pilot-scale solar photo-Fenton and TiO2 treatment of a model compound (α-methylphenylglycine) dissolved in 500 mg/l concentration in water.
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Fe/TiO2/pH interactions in solar degradation of imidacloprid with TiO2/SiO2 photocatalysts at pilot-plant scale
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on determining iron, TiO2, and pH interaction in photocatalytic oxidation of the pesticide imidacloprid with TiO 2/SiO2 catalysts at pilot-plant scale.
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Photocatalytic degradation of prions using the photo-Fenton reagent.
TL;DR: In this paper, the photo-Fenton reagent was used to degrade prion proteins and the total protein amount from brain preparations of naturally or experimentally infected species and contained in sheep scrapie brain homogenates.
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Killing of Escherichia coli K-12 by near-ultraviolet radiation in the presence of hydrogen peroxide: Role of double-strand DNA breaks in absence of recombinational repair
TL;DR: The correlation between DS-break formation and lethality in wild-type and a polA mutant indicates that the RecA-independent synergistic killing results from the conversion of SS into lethal DS breaks.
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Kinetic studies of depollution process in TiO2 Slurries: interdependences of adsorption and UV-intensity
Joseph Cunningham,Petr. Sedlak +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the initial rates for TiO2-photocatalysed depletions of those pollutants under low, moderate and high fluxs of 365 nm photons varied as a function of various initial aqueous-phase concentrations attained after adsorption-desorption equilibration.