Solar photocatalytic degradation of commercial textile azo dyes: Performance of pilot plant scale thin film fixed-bed reactor

Desalination

Volumn 246, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 344-352

  Zayani, Ghanem ^a,b   Bousselmi, Latifa ^a   Mhenni, Farouk ^b   Ghrabi, Ahmed ^a  

^a University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Dye; Photocatalysis; Solar; Textile

Indexed keywords

CATALYST LOADINGS; DEGUSSA; FIXED-BED REACTORS; INITIAL DYE CONCENTRATION; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD MODELS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MODEL COMPOUND; ON FLOW; OPTIMUM FLOW; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PILOT PLANT SCALE; SOLAR; SOLAR PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION; THIN-FILMS; TIO;

AZO DYES; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DEGRADATION; DISCOLORATION; FLOW RATE; METAL RECOVERY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PILOT PLANTS; TEXTILES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

TEXTILE FINISHING;

CATALYSIS; DYE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOLAR POWER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 68349139466     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.059     Document Type: Article

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