Photocatalytic degradation of nitrobenzene using titanium dioxide and concentrated solar radiation: Chemical effects and scaleup

Water Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1223-1230

  Bhatkhande, Dhananjay S ^a   Pangarkar, Vishwas G ^a   Beenackers, Anthony A C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anion effect; Nitrobenzene; pH effect; Photocatalysis; Scaleup; TiO2

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FREE RADICALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PH EFFECTS; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PHOTOCATALYSTS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANION; FERRIC SULFATE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITROBENZENE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BENZENE; CATALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEGRADATION; OXIDATION; PH; PHOTON; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; WASTE WATER;

EID: 0037332613     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(02)00490-6     Document Type: Article

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