From Ideal Reactor Concepts to Reality: The Novel Drum Reactor for Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment
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Morgan Adams
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Ian Campbell
Abstract
This article reports the development of a novel drum photocatalytic reactor for treating dye effluent streams. The parameters for operation including drum rotation speed, light source distance, catalyst loading and H2O2 doping have been investigated using methylene blue as a model pollutant. Effluent can be generated by a number of domestic and industrial sources, including pharmaceutical, oil and gas, agricultural, food and chemical sectors. The work reported here proposes the application of semiconductor photocatalysis as a final polishing step for the removal of hydrocarbons from effluents sources, initial studies have proved effective in removing residual hydrocarbons from the effluent.
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- Masthead
- Masthead
- Editorial
- In Honor of Alberto E. Cassano: Researcher, Engineer, and Academic
- Articles
- From Ideal Reactor Concepts to Reality: The Novel Drum Reactor for Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Comparison of Sol–Gel TiO2 Immobilized Photocatalysts
- Determination of Kinetic Parameter in a Unified Kinetic Model for the Photodegradation of Phenol by Using Nonlinear Regression and the Genetic Algorithm
- Mass Transfer and Conservation from a Finite Source to an Infinite Media
- Modelling and Simulation of Gas–liquid Hydrodynamics in a Rectangular Air-lift Reactor
- Two-Dimensional Modeling of an Externally Irradiated Slurry Photoreactor
- Role of Aspect Ratio and Joule Heating within the Fluid Region Near a Cylindrical Electrode in Electrokinetic Remediation: A Numerical Solution based on the Boundary Layer Model
- Solar Water Disinfection Using NF-codoped TiO2 Photocatalysis: Estimation of Scaling-up Parameters
- A Simple and Semi-Empirical Model to Predict THMs Generation in Water Facilities Including pH Effects
- On the Standardization of the Photocatalytic Gas/Solid Tests
- Microalgae Technology: A Patent Survey
- Influence of Physical and Optical Parameters on 2,4-Dichlorophenol Degradation
- Factors Capable of Modifying the Response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the Inactivation Induced by Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
- Enhanced Antibacterial Activity of CeO2 Nanoparticles by Surfactants
- Determination of Photochemical, Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Efficiencies in a Photoelectrocatalytic Reactor
- Correlations between Molecular Descriptors from Various Volatile Organic Compounds and Photocatalytic Oxidation Kinetic Constants
- Role of Joule Heating in Electro-Assisted Processes: A Boundary Layer Approach for Rectangular Electrodes
