Review Article
Degrading Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from Wastewater by Photocatalysis: A Review
Table 1
Effect of initial substrate concentration on the photocatalytic degradation of various EDCs.
| Organic pollutant | Light source | Photocatalyst | Tested initial concentration (mgยทLโ1) | Optimum initial concentration (mgยทLโ1) | Reference |
| Di-n-butyl phthalate | UV | TiO2/glass beads | 2.5โ12.5 | 2.5 | Chiou et al. [105] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | UV | Ti-GAC | 15.3โ33.2 | 15.3 | Gu et al. [106] | Bisphenol A | Solar | TiO2/Ti | 0.15โ0.60 | 0.30 | Daskalaki et al. [107] | | Solar | TiO2-P25/Ti | 0.15โ0.60 | 0.15 | Daskalaki et al. [107] | Bisphenol A | UV | Zr/TiO2 | 15โ60 | 15 | Gao et al. [108] | n-Butyl benzyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0.5โ2.5 | 0.5 | Xu et al. [69] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | Visible | TiO2/porphyrin | 10โ100 | 10 | Chang et al. [109] | Bisphenol A | UV | TiO2 | 5โ20 | 5 | Wang et al. [110] | Pentachlorophenol | UV | TiO2/SS | 2.5โ10 | 2.5 | Jung et al. [90] | Bisphenol A | UV | TiO2/PF | 10โ50 | 10 | Wang et al. [104] | Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0.025โ0.3 | 0.025 | Chung and Chen [70] | Dimethyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 5โ80 | 5 | Liao and Wang [101] |
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