Direct evaluation of the absorbed photon flow in a photocatalytic reactor by an actinometric method

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 200-202, Issue , 2012, Pages 158-167

  Bayarri, Bernardí ^a   Giménez, Jaime ^a   Curcó, David ^a   Esplugas, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Photocatalysis; Pollutants treatment; Radiation model; Reactor modelling; TiO2

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED PHOTONS; CATALYST CONCENTRATION; CYLINDRICAL REACTORS; OXALIC ACID; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTORS; PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEMS; POLLUTANTS TREATMENT; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RADIATION MODELS; REACTOR MODELLING; TIO; TUBULAR REACTORS; URANYL NITRATE; XENON LAMPS;

ELECTRIC LAMPS; ELECTRIC REACTORS; EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; URANIUM;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84865530672     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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