Degrading Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from Wastewater by TiO_𝟐 Photocatalysis: A Review

Table 2

Effect of catalyst loading on the photocatalytic degradation of various EDCs.

Organic pollutant	Light source	Photocatalyst	Tested catalyst concentration (g·L^−1)	Optimum catalyst concentration (g·L^−1)	Reference
Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate	UV	TiO2	0–0.0005	0.0001	Chung and Chen [70]
Bisphenol A	Solar	TiO2	0–20.0	10.0	Kaneco et al. [97]
Bisphenol A	UV	TiO2	0–3.0	0.5	Tsai et al. [20]
2,4-Dichlorophenol	UV	Ti-GAC	5.0–9.0	9.0	Gu et al. [106]
1,2-Diethyl phthalate	UV	TiO2	0–5.0	1.0	Muneer et al. [53]
Pentachlorophenol	UV	TiO2/SS	0–20.4	10.1	Jung et al. [90]
n-Butyl benzyl phthalate	UV	TiO2	0–5.0	2.0	Xu et al. [69]
Bisphenol A	UV	Ti-MCM-41	0–0.2	0.1	Tao et al. [88]
2,4-Dichlorophenol	UV	TiO2	0–2.0	0.5	Bayarri et al. [121]
Dibutyl phthalate	UV	TiO2	0.001–0.005	0.005	Bajt et al. [122]
Diethyl phthalate	UV	TiO2	0.04–0.4	0.2	Huang and Chen [94]