Photocatalytic mineralization of commercial herbicides in a pilot-scale solar CPC reactor: Photoreactor modeling and reaction kinetics constants independent of radiation field

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 8953-8960

  Colina Márquez, Jose ^a   Machuca Martínez, Fiderman ^a   Li Puma, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMETRYNE; COLOMBIANS; COMPOUND PARABOLIC COLLECTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID-DYNAMIC MODELS; OVERALL-MODEL; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC APPLICATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PHOTOREACTORS; PILOT SCALE; RADIATION FIELD; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; REACTOR GEOMETRIES; RELIABLE MODELS; SCATTERING MODEL; SOLAR PHOTON FLUX; SPATIAL PROFILES; TIO; VOLUMETRIC RATES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CORROSION PREVENTION; DYNAMIC MODELS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; HERBICIDES; MINERALOGY; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RATE CONSTANTS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGAR CANE; SUGARS; UREA; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER TREATMENT; WEED CONTROL;

REACTION KINETICS;

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; AMETRYN; DIURON; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; BIOREACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HERBICIDE; MINERALIZATION; RAY TRACING; REACTION KINETICS; SLURRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MINERALIZATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOREACTOR; RADIATION FIELD; REACTOR; SOLAR RADIATION; SUGARCANE;

ABSORPTION; CARBON; CATALYSIS; COLOMBIA; HERBICIDES; KINETICS; MINERALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; PILOT PROJECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUNLIGHT;

SACCHARUM;

EID: 72249095416     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902004b     Document Type: Article

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