Synthesis and Characterization of Cerium Doped Titanium Catalyst for the Degradation of Nitrobenzene Using Visible Light

Table 3

Comparison of the performance of the present work with other published works.

Catalyst	Properties	Light source	% degradation	Reference
Ce doped TiO2	Particle size: 10.8 nm; Surface area: 89.6 m^2g^−1; Band gap: 368 nm	Visible	5% for 50 mgL^−1 of NB solution	Alouche (2008) [18]
H3PW12O40-TiO2		Visible	94.1% of 20 mgL^−1 of NB solution in 6.5 hrs	Tayade et al. (2007) [19]
Fe-ETS-10	Surface area: 191 m^2g^−1; Band gap: 3.13 eV	UV	43% of 50 mgL^−1 of NB solution in 4 hrs	Shen et al. (2009) [20]
Nanocrystalline TiO2	Particle size: 12 nm; Surface area: 166 m^2g^−1; Band gap: 3.28 eV	Visible	96% of 50 mgL^−1 of NB solution in 8 hrs	Tayade et al. (2006) [6]
Silver metal exchanged ETS-10 Zeolite	Surface area: 205 m^2g^−1; Band gap: 3.16 eV	UV light; (267 nm)	57% 50 mgL^−1 of NB solution in 4 hrs	Shen et al. (2009) [20]
N-Ce doped TiO2	Particle size: 10.8 nm; Surface area: 152 m^2g^−1; Band gap: 2.19 eV	Visible; (300 W xenon lamp)	53% 50 mgL^−1 of NB solution in 4 hrs	Alouche (2008) [18]