Review Article
Degrading Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from Wastewater by Photocatalysis: A Review
Table 3
Effect of solution pH on the photocatalytic degradation of various EDCs.
| Organic pollutant | Light source | Photocatalyst | Range of solution pH | Optimum solution pH | Reference |
| Dimethyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 3.0–11.0 | 5.0 | Liao and Wang [101] | Bisphenol A | Visible | C-N/TiO2 | 3.0–11.0 | 7.0 | Wang and Lim [133] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | UV | TiO2 | 3.5–10.6 | 10.6 | Trillas et al. [134] | Bisphenol A | UV | TiO2 | 4.0–10.0 | 4.0 | Kuo and Lin [120] | Diethyl phthalate | Solar | PW12/TiO2 | 3.4–11.2 | 11.2 | Xu et al. [64] | Pentachlorophenol | UV | TiO2 | 7.0–11.0 | 7.0 | Hanna et al. [135] | 2,4-Dichlorophenol | UV | Porphyrin/TiO2 | 4.0–10.0 | 10.0 | Chang et al. [109] | n-Butyl benzyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 3.0–11.0 | 7.0 | Xu et al. [69] | Bisphenol A | Solar | N/TiO2/AC | 3.0–11.0 | 3.0 | Yap et al. [136] | Bisphenol A | Visible | N/TiO2 | 3.0–10.0 | 10.0 | Subagio et al. [137] | 1,2-Diethyl phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 3.0–9.0 | 6.0 | Muneer et al. [53] | Bisphenol A | Solar | TiO2/Ti | 3.0–10.0 | 8.0 | Daskalaki et al. [107] | Bisphenol A | Visible | TiO2 | 4.0 – 10.0 | 4.0 | Kuo et al. [138] | 2,4-dichlorophenol | UV | /TiO2/ACF | 2.0–10.0 | 6.0 | Liu et al. [139] | Bisphenol A | UV | Zr/TiO2 | 2.0–11.0 | 9.0 | Gao et al. [108] | Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate | UV | TiO2 | 2.0–12.0 | 12.0 | Chan et al. [140] |
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