Kinetics rate model of the photocatalytic oxidation of trichloroethylene in air over TiO2 thin films

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 226-232

  Li Puma, Gianluca ^a   Salvadó Estivill, Ignasi ^a   Obee, Timothy N ^b   Hay, Stephen O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Photocatalysis; Reaction kinetics; Titanium dioxide; VOC

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE ATOMS; COMPLEX EQUATIONS; ELEMENTARY REACTIONS; FIRST-ORDER DEPENDENCES; FLOW-THROUGH; INVERSE DEPENDENCES; KINETIC ANALYSIS; KINETIC MODELS; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD; OXIDATION RATES; PHOTO-CATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTON FLUXES; RATE EQUATIONS; RATE MODELS; RATIONAL METHODS; TCE CONCENTRATIONS; VOC; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS;

AIR QUALITY; ANESTHETICS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; OXIDATION; OXIDES; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTONS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER VAPOR;

REACTION KINETICS;

EID: 67349164735     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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