Effect of irradiation intensity and initial pollutant concentration on gas phase photocatalytic activity of TiO2 nanotube arrays

Catalysis Today

Volumn 284, Issue , 2017, Pages 19-26

  Mazierski, Paweł ^a   Nadolna, Joanna ^a   Lisowski, Wojciech ^b   Winiarski, Michał J ^c   Gazda, Maria ^c   Nischk, Michał ^a   Klimczuk, Tomasz ^c   Zaleska Medynska, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gas phase photocatalysis; Irradiation intensity; Light emitting diodes; TiO2nanotubes; Toluene photodegradation

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; GASES; IRRADIATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OXIDE MINERALS; POLLUTION; RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOLUENE; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY; VANADIUM METALLOGRAPHY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; GAS PHASE PHOTOCATALYSIS; IRRADIATION INTENSITY; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; TIO2NANOTUBES; X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTOMETRY;

PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITY;

EID: 84994777527     PISSN: 09205861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2016.09.004     Document Type: Article

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