Removal of Organic Impurities from Water Using a Reactor with Photoactive Refill

Grzechulska-Damszel, Joanna

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Volume 2009 | Article ID 304712 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/304712

Removal of Organic Impurities from Water Using a Reactor with Photoactive Refill

Joanna Grzechulska-Damszel¹

Academic Editor: Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Mottaleb

Received17 Mar 2009

Accepted20 Apr 2009

Published18 Aug 2009

Abstract

The aim of the presented work was the removal of phenol from water using a reactor with photoactive refill. Titanium dioxide (Chemical Factory “Police” Poland) was immobilized on the base material as a thin layer from the alcoholic suspension followed by thermal stabilization. The glass fabric was applied as a support for the titania coating. The results of studies revealed that the titania coatings show a high photocatalytic activity toward the phenol decomposition in water. The complete removal of phenol was achieved in the relatively short time of 23 hours. The prepared coatings exhibit high stability in repeated cycles of water treatment. The proposed reactor with photoactive refill solves the problem of necessity of replacement of the reactor or the parts of the reactor when the photocatalysts activity decreases. In the case of activity drop of the photocatalyst, only the photoactive refill can be easily replaced.

1. Introduction

Advance Oxidation Processes (AOPs) have been reported to be useful for photooxidation of organic pollutants in wastewater [1–9]. Among the various Advanced Oxidation Processes employed in water treatment, heterogeneous semiconductor photocatalysis shows great importance due to its ability to destroy a wide range of organic pollutants at ambient temperature and pressure, without generation of harmful byproducts [10–24]. The most commonly used photocatalyst is . Titanium dioxide has essentially proved itself to be the best material for environmental purification because of its many desirable properties. is a cheap, readily available material capable of oxidation of a wide range of organic pollutants into harmless compounds, often leading to complete mineralization of organics.

The use of photocatalysis has been proved to be a good choice to achieve an effective elimination of phenolic compounds from waters [25–42]. Also, phenol is usually taken as a model compound for advanced wastewater treatment studies [43–45].

The photocatalytic processes can operate using catalyst suspended in the solution or immobilized on various supports. Photocatalytic reactors with suspended catalyst give much better contact between the photocatalyst and dissolved impurities comparing to reactors with immobilized catalyst. However, in this case the step of separation of the catalyst is necessary, which increases the overall costs of the process. Different researchers have tried to minimize these problems by immobilizing on various solid supports or on the reactor walls, which eliminates arduous step of separation [46–56]. Titanium dioxide was immobilized on various supports and using various methods. Immobilization of the photocatalyst on the reactor walls or other parts of the reactor shows disadvantages when the activity of the catalyst decreases, and it has to be replaced. Thus, the better solution is to immobilize the photocatalyst on the replaceable elements that can be easily removed and placed again in the reactor. The other advantage of such supports is to provide a good contact of the treated medium with the photocatalyst surface and also a good penetration of light in the reactor. A flexible textiles seemed to be adequate support for the photoactive titania coatings. However, textiles are an organic materials and can itself undergo the photocatalytic degradation.

The aim of the presented work was the removal of organic impurities from water using a reactor with photoactive refill. Titanium dioxide (Chemical Factory “Police” Poland) was immobilized on the base material as a thin layer from the alcoholic suspension followed by thermal stabilization. In case of activity drop of the photocatalyst, only the photoactive refill can be easily replaced.

2. Experimental

The commercial anatase form of titanium dioxide produced by Chemical Factory “Police” (Poland) was used as a photocatalyst. Phenol (POCh S.A., Poland) was used as a model organic compound. Titanium dioxide was immobilized on the base material from the alcoholic solution followed by thermal stabilization. The support for titania photoactive coating was a glass fabric produced by “Pabiantex” factory (Poland). The glass fabric with titania coating was a replaceable photoactive refill placed in the reactor where the process of water purification was conducted.

The process of photocatalytic oxidation of phenol was conducted using a laboratory installation (Figure 1) where the main component of the system was the flow reactor (Trojan Technologies, Canada). This is a cylindrical reactor with length of approximately 29.5 cm and the diameter of 6.8 cm. The mercury lamp emitting UV radiation in the range of 250–800 nm, with high maximum at 254, 436, and 546 nm, was placed inside the reactor, in the center. The photoactive refill was also placed inside the reactor in a way to stick the inner walls of the reactor.

The photocatalyst was fixed to the glass fabric according to the following procedure. The suspension of in ethanol was sonicated for 1 hour with a frequency of 40 kHz. The glass fabric (size cm) was immersed in such prepared suspension and then dried for at C. The procedure was repeated twice. After that the coating was stabilized by thermal treatment at the temperature of C overnight. The excess of the immobilized photocatalyst was rinsed by flowing water through the reactor before the photocatalytic process.

The solution of phenol, with the initial concentration of 20 mg/dm³, was pumped to the reactor by peristaltic pump from the container and was circulated through the reactor with the flow rate of 36 dm³/h. The volume of the reaction solution was 2.5 dm³. The amount of the solution inside the reactor was approximately 1 dm³. The changes of phenol concentration in the solution were determined by absorbance measurement at maximal absorption wavelength 270 nm (Jasco V-530 spectrometer, Japan). Total organic carbon (TOC) concentration was measured by “multi N/C 2000” analyzer (Analytik Jena, Germany). Total dissolved solids (TDS) content, conductivity, and pH of the solution (Ultrameter 6P, Myron L Company, USA) were also monitored during the process. The reaction solution circulated in the reactor for 15 minutes without illumination to obtain the adsorption equilibrium. The adsorption of phenol onto photocatalyst surface was low, only about 1% (by weight).

3. Results and Discussion

The experiments of the photocatalytic degradation of phenol were conducted for the initial concentration of 20 mg/dm³. The volume of the treated solution was 2.5 dm³. The first test reaction of photocatalytic decomposition of phenol was conducted until the complete decay of phenol in the reaction solution (phenol presence was not detected by UV/Vis analysis). The next tests were conducted for 10 hours.

At the beginning of studies blank experiments were performed. No decomposition occurred when an aqueous solution of phenol flowed through the reactor in the dark, and the direct photolysis was also negligible. Decomposition of phenol in the solution could only be observed with the simultaneous presence of and of UV light. Therefore, it can be stated that in the presence of a true heterogeneous catalytic regime takes place.

Figure 2 presents the changes in phenol concentration during the photocatalytic process for four tests preformed with the same photoactive refill. The concentration of phenol decreases with the time of the process. As can be seen from Figure 2, the decrease in phenol concentration is the highest during the first hours of the process. After that, the rate of decrease of concentration of phenol decelerates; however, the complete removal of phenol from the treated solution was obtained. During the first test the complete removal of phenol was observed after 23 hours of the process. In the second tests, the concentration of phenol in the solution after 10 hours of illumination was a little higher comparing to the first one; however, the third and the fourth tests showed comparable time of decomposition as the second one.

The reaction of photocatalytic phenol decomposition followed the first-order reaction kinetics concerning to phenol concentration. A plot of versus time represents a straight line (Figure 2), the slope of which upon the linear regression equals the apparent first-order rate constant according to the equation of the Langmuir-Hinshelwood model:

which can be simplified to a apparent first-order equation:

Table 1 lists the values of and the linear regression coefficients of photodegradation of phenol for each test performed. According to the values in the table, the appropriate linear relationship appears well.

The changes in phenol concentration were monitored by UV/Vis spectroscopy. Figure 3 presents an example UV/Vis spectra recorded during the photocatalytic process of phenol decomposition. The progressive fading of the absorption peak at the wavelength of 270 nm is observed indicating the decrease of phenol concentration in the consecutive samples taken for the analysis during the process.

Together with the decrease of the concentration of phenol in the reaction solution with the time of the process, the decrease of TOC concentration was observed (Figure 4). Total disappearance of the reactant was obtained after 23 hours of the process while the organic carbon was still present in the solution after this time of the photocatalytic process. TOC concentration in the starting solution was equal to 14.4 mg/dm³ for the first test. After the photocatalytic process was completed, the TOC concentration decreased to 6.56 mg/dm³, which gives over 54% of removal of organic carbon from the solution. The decrease of TOC concentration was the result of the aromatic ring opening and subsequent decomposition of intermediate products formed; however, the complete mineralization of phenol was not achieved. The time of photocatalytic process should be elongated to obtain the oxidation of phenol to the final products: and .

The values of TDS, conductivity, and pH measured during the process give a better view to the degradation reaction. The changes of these parameters are presented in Figure 4. The data presented on Figure 4 refer to the first test of decomposition of phenol. For the other three tests the tendency of changes was similar. The conductivity and TDS values tend to increase with the time of the process. This indicates the mineralization of organic molecules and increase of dissolved species present in the solution. However, this also indicates that the decomposition process was not complete; this is to say it did not lead to full mineralization of the reactant, since in such a case the values of TDS and conductivity would settle at the some value and remained constant. The analysis of organic carbon in the reaction solution confirms the above statement.

4. Conclusions

Conclusions are listed as follows.

(i)The process of the photocatalytic removal of phenol can be successfully conducted in the reactor with photoactive refill presented in these studies.(ii)The photoactive refill applied in the studies is prepared using a very simple method and in the case of decrease of photoactivity can be easily replaced.(iii)The titania coating shows a high photocatalytic activity toward the model organic compound (phenol) decomposition in water.(iv)The prepared coating exhibits high stability in repeated cycles of water treatment.(v)The proposed reactor with photoactive refill solves the problem of necessity of replacement of the reactor or the parts of the reactor when the photocatalyst activity decreases.(vi)Application of glass fabric is advantageous since it is resistant to UV light and does not undergo the photocatalytic decomposition on the contrary to the natural fabrics.

Acknowledgment

This work was financed by the Polish Government in the framework of a Grant (2006–2009).

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