Highly efficient indoor air purification using adsorption-enhanced- photocatalysis-based microporous TiO 2 at short residence time

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1447-1454

  Lv, Jinze ^a,b   Zhu, Lizhong ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption amount; cyclohexanone; low concentration; micropore; removal efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AIR PURIFICATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROPOROSITY; PHOTOCATALYSIS; POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION AMOUNTS; CYCLOHEXANONES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MICROPORES; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANONE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDOOR AIR; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POROUS MEDIUM; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RESIDENCE TIME; TITANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CATALYST; DEGRADATION; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR PURIFICATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PURIFICATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84879686172     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2012.752875     Document Type: Article

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