Analysis of photocatalytic reactors employing the photonic efficiency and the removal efficiency parameters: Degradation of radiation absorbing and nonabsorbing pollutants

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 6898-6908

  Sagawe, Gerd ^a   Satuf, María L ^b   Brandi, Rodolfo J ^b   Muschner, Jan P ^a   Federer, Christian ^a   Alfano, Orlando M ^b   Bahnemann, Detlef ^a   Cassano, Alberto E ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4-NITROPHENOL; DEGUSSA; DICHLOROACETIC ACID; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD MODELS; LINEAR MODEL; MODEL SIMULATION; OPTICAL EFFECTS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTO-CATALYTIC; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTONIC EFFICIENCIES; RADIATION ABSORBING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; REACTING SYSTEM; REACTOR WALLS; REAL SAMPLES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SIMPLE APPROACH; SLURRY REACTOR; TIO; UV LAMPS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ABSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHENOLS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION SHIELDING; REACTION KINETICS; REMOVAL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BATCH REACTORS;

EID: 77955043248     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901753k     Document Type: Article

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