Review Article
Degrading Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from Wastewater by Photocatalysis: A Review
Table 2
Effect of catalyst loading on the photocatalytic degradation of various EDCs.
| Organic pollutant | Light source | Photocatalyst | Tested catalyst concentration (gยทLโ1) | Optimum catalyst concentration (gยทLโ1) | Reference |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0โ0.0005 | 0.0001 | Chung and Chen [70] | Bisphenol A | Solar | TiO2 | 0โ20.0 | 10.0 | Kaneco et al. [97] | Bisphenol A | UV | TiO2 | 0โ3.0 | 0.5 | Tsai et al. [20] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | UV | Ti-GAC | 5.0โ9.0 | 9.0 | Gu et al. [106] | 1,2-Diethyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0โ5.0 | 1.0 | Muneer et al. [53] | Pentachlorophenol | UV | TiO2/SS | 0โ20.4 | 10.1 | Jung et al. [90] | n-Butyl benzyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0โ5.0 | 2.0 | Xu et al. [69] | Bisphenol A | UV | Ti-MCM-41 | 0โ0.2 | 0.1 | Tao et al. [88] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | UV | TiO2 | 0โ2.0 | 0.5 | Bayarri et al. [121] | Dibutyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0.001โ0.005 | 0.005 | Bajt et al. [122] | Diethyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 0.04โ0.4 | 0.2 | Huang and Chen [94] |
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