Highly effective buoyant photocatalyst prepared with a novel layered-TiO2 configuration on polypropylene fabric and the degradation performance for methyl orange dye under UV-Vis and Vis lights

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-150

  Han, Hui ^a   Bai, Renbi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Buoyant photocatalysts; Layered rutile and anatase TiO2; Methyl orange dye degradation; Polypropylene substrate

Indexed keywords

ANATASE TIO; ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE DEGRADATION; LOADING RATE; METHYL ORANGE; METHYL ORANGE DYE DEGRADATION; POLYPROPYLENE FABRIC; RUTILE AND ANATASE; RUTILE TIO; THREE-LAYER; TIO; TWO LAYERS; UV AND VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT;

AZO DYES; BUOYANCY; CATALYSIS; DEGRADATION; FABRICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIGHT SOURCES; OXIDE MINERALS; THERMOPLASTICS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PHOTOCATALYSTS;

EID: 77955307258     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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