Fabrication of an inexpensive and high efficiency microphotoreactor using CO2 laser technique for photocatalytic water treatment applications

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1063-1073

  Eskandarloo, Hamed ^a   Badiei, Alireza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

immobilized micro channel; inexpensive fabrication; micro photoreactor; photocatalytic degradation; UVLEDs

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; CATALYSTS; CITRUS FRUITS; ESTERS; FABRICATION; OXIDE MINERALS; OZONE WATER TREATMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REUSABILITY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; INLET CONCENTRATION; OPERATIONAL VARIABLES; PHOTO CATALYTIC DEGRADATION; PHOTOCATALYTIC WATER TREATMENT; PHOTOREACTORS; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); UVLEDS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

4 NITROPHENOL; DYE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDIZING AGENT; COLORING AGENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION CONTROL; SURFACE AREA; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MICROPHOTOREACTOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTODEGRADATION; REACTOR; TEXTILE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; GAS LASER; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

COLORING AGENTS; LASERS, GAS; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84922626495     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2014.974681     Document Type: Article

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