Orientador: Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni / Banca: Paulo Roberto Bueno / Banca: Arthur de Jesus Motheo / Banca: Romeu Cardozo Rocha Filho / Bana: Rodnei Bertazolli / Resumo: O comportamento eletroquímico de três corantes dispersos, Vermelho Disperso 1, Laranja Disperso 1 e Vermelho Disperso 13 foi investigado em N,N-dimetilformamida usando tetrafluorborato de tetrabutilamônio como eletrólito de suporte. O grupo nitro dos corantes é reduzido em potenciais de -0,85 V, -0,79 V e -0,69 V, respectivamente, para os corantes Vermelho Disperso 1, Laranja Disperso 1 e Vermelho Disperso 13. A oxidação do grupo amino, também presente nos corantes investigados, ocorre, respectivamente, em potencial de 0,95 V, 0,90 V e 1,0 V e promove a clivagem do grupo azo. Devido à toxicidade e mutagenicidade destes corantes, analisada pelos testes de citotoxicidade em células humanas embrionárias HEK293 e de Ames, respectivamente, investigou-se no presente trabalho novos métodos de degradação dos mesmos em meio aquoso usando o agente dispersante comercial "Emulsogen" por meio de tratamento com cloro ativo (cloração convencional) e fotoeletroquimicamente pela geração de radicais cloro "in situ" sobre eletrodos nanoparticulados de Ti/TiO2, preparados pelo método sol-gel, em NaCl 0,1 mol L-1. A oxidação fotoeletrocatalítica, sobre eletrodos nanoparticulados de Ti/TiO2 em NaCl, mostrou-se mais eficiente quando comparada à cloração convencional, tanto na descoloração que promoveu 100% de remoção de cor, quanto na mineralização dos mesmos (até 60% de remoção de COT). A mutagenicidade dos corantes estudados foi drasticamente reduzida após tratamento fotoeletroquímico. No entanto, a cloração convencional não foi eficiente para total remoção da atividade mutagênica dos corantes, observando-se, ainda, um aumento para o corante Vermelho Disperso 13. A degradação também foi investigada sobre eletrodos de nanotubos de Ti/TiO2, preparados pelo método de anodização eletroquímica... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The electrochemical behavior of three disperse dyes, Disperse Red 1, Disperse Orange 1 and Disperse Red 13, was investigated using N,N-dimethylformamide using in tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate as supporting electrolyte. The nitro group of the dyes is reduced in potential of -0.85 V, 0.79 V and -0.69 V, respectively, for Disperse Red 1, Disperse Orange 1 and Disperse Red 13. The oxidation of amine group, also presents in the dyes molecules, occurs, respectively, at 0.95 V, 0.90 V and 1.0 V and promotes cleavage of azo group. Because of these dyes toxicity and mutagenicity, analyzed by citotoxicity in embryonic human cells HEK293 and mutagenicity detected by Ames test, respectively, new methods of degradation of these dyes in aqueous medium using the commercial dispersant agent "Emulsogen" was investigated by active chlorine treatment (conventional chlorination) and photoelectrochemically by "in situ" chlorine radicals generation using Ti/TiO2 nanoparticulates electrodes, prepared by solgel method, in 0.1 mol L-1 NaCl. The photoelectrocatalytic oxidation, using Ti/TiO2 nanoparticulates electrodes in NaCl presented higher efficiency when compared to conventional chlorination, leading to 100% of color removal and also 60% of mineralization of dyes measured as TOC removal. The mutagenicity of all investigated dyes was dramatically reduced after photoelectrochemical treatment. However, the conventional chlorination was not efficient for mutagenic activity removal of dyes and promoted an increase for Disperse Red 13. The degradation was also investigated using Ti/TiO2 nanotubes electrodes, prepared by electrochemical anodization in fluoride medium and characterized by SEM and photocurrent curves. These electrodes presented 100% of discoloration of all investigated dyes and total organic carbon removal around 70% after 3 hours of photoelectrocatalytic degradation... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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The study combined photoelectrocatalytic technology (PEC) with electrical glassfiber filter (EGF) to decompose volatile organic compounds (VOCs). External electrical voltage was applied to retard the recombination of electron-electron hole pairs and increase the surface temperature of the photocatalysts coated on the electrical glassfiber filter, which could further decompose VOCs more effectively via photoelectrocatalytic technology. Acetone was selected as the gasous pollutant for this particular study. A commercial TiO2 photocatalyst (AG-160) was coated on GFF via impregnation to decompose acetone in a batch PEC reactor. Operation parameters investigated in this study included acetone concentration (50~400 ppm), electrical voltage (0~6,500V), water content (0~20,000 ppm), reaction temperature (40¢J~80¢J).The incident UV light of 365 nm wavelength was irradiated by three 15-wat low pressure mercury lamps (£f=365 nm) placing above the batch PEC reactor. The TiO2-coated EGF was placed at the center of the batch PEC reactor. Acetone was injected into the reactor by a gasket syringe to conduct the PEC decomposition test. Acetone was analyzed quantitatively by a gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector (GC/FID). Finally, a Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic (L-H) model was proposed to simulate the PEC reaction rate of acetone. Experimental results showed that the size range of the self-produced nano-sized photocatalyst prepared by sol-gel was 35~50 nm. Three duplicate tests of PC and PEC degradation of acetone indicated that TiO2 was not deactivated during the PC and PCE reactions, hence TiO2 can be reused in the experiments. Results obtained from the PC and PEC degradation experiments indicated that the PEC reaction rate was higher than the PC reaction rate.The PEC reaction rate increased with applied electrical voltage, and the highest decomposition efficiency occurred at 6,500 V. Electrical field generated by the differences of electrical voltage can effectively enhance the oxidation capability of TiO2 since electron (e-) can be conducted to retard the recombination of electron and electron hole pairs. Both PC and PEC technologies could be used to decompose acetone. Among them, PEC had highter decomposition efficiency of acetone than PC up to 34%. Rsults obtained from the operation parameter tests reaveled that raising electrical voltage could enhance the decomposition efficiency of acetone only for electrical voltages above 2,000 V. However, the decomposition efficiency of acetone tended to level off as electrical voltage became higher. Zero-order reaction rate of the PEC reaction was observed for initial acetone concentration of 100~400 ppm, while the PEC reaction decreased gradually for initial acetone concentration reaction below 100 ppm. It revealed that the PEC reaction was pseudo ozero-order for initial acetone concentration of 100~400 ppm, and pseudo first-order reaction for acetone concentration below 100 ppm. Additionally, the PC reaction rate increased with temperature at 45-80¢J. However the PEC reaction rate increased with temperature at 45-60¢J, and decreased with temperature at 60-80¢J. An adsorptive competition between acetone and water molecules at the active sites over TiO2 surface caused either promotion or inhibition of TiO2 decomposition depending on moisture content . For the PC and PEC reactions, the optimum operating condition of water vapor concentration was 10,000 ppm, but inhibition occurred when the water vapor concentration increased up to 20,000 ppm. Finally, the Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic model was applied to investiage the influences of reaction temperature, initial concentration of acetone, and water content on the photoelectrocatalytic reaction rate of acetone. Model simulation results showed that photoelectrocatalytic reaction rate constant of acetone(kLH) and adsorptive equilibrium constant(KA) increased with electrical voltage and acetone initial concentration. This study sevealed that experimental and simulated results were in good agreement. Thus, PEC reaction rate of acetone on the surface of TiO2 can be also succesfully simulated by the L-H kinetic model.

Water pollution has become an environmental catastrophe due to the rapid urbanization. The treatment of dumping of waste chemicals in water bodies has contributed to the increase in pollution. In addition to the pollution caused by waste chemicals, faecal bacteria such as Escherichia, Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas etc., can cause serious health issues. Techniques such as filtration and chlorination provide clean water but are associated with disadvantages such as toxic by-products. Although clean water can be still obtained by these techniques, the development of resistance by microorganisms with such conventional treatments of antibiotics is inevitable and poses a new threat. Various researches have taken place in the past few decades to provide clean drinking water. Photocatalysis is considered to be a promising viable alternative for the existing methods to solve the menace of water pollution. It is an advanced oxidation process where the reactive oxygen species are generated by using nanomaterials that can cause degradation of chemicals and pathogens. Particularly, photocatalysis using semiconductors and their composites have been tested for their use in the destruction of contaminants. Several methods have been used in the synthesis of nanomaterials and the variations in their morphologies have resulted in different applications such as photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. Among all semiconductors, TiO2 has been widely used in this application owing to their non-toxicity and abundance in availability. However, TiO2 can be activated only in the presence of UV light. Therefore, the formation of heterojunctions, doping of metals/no- metals in TiO2 has enabled the activation of TiO2 in the visible region. The former approach has also been studied with ceria and silver salts combination. Besides conventional metal oxides, other transitional metal oxides such as copper oxide and bismuth oxide have also been studied owing to its conducting property and facile growth on substrates respectively for enhanced photocatalysis. All the above tweaking has enabled efficient charge separation, band gap reduction, and prevention of recombination. In this thesis, all the nanomaterials and their composites have been synthesized using simple methods such as solution combustion, hydrothermal, solution co-precipitation, and chemical deposition. The primary aim of this thesis is to synthesize various effective nanomaterials with different morphologies, bandgap engineered nanocomposites, metal or non-metal doped metal oxides for efficient waste water treatment of dyes, antibiotics, phenols, and bacteria. Besides, relying on photocatalytic ability, the photoconductivity and intrinsic conducting properties of nanomaterials were exploited to perform photoelectrocatalysis that enhances the rate of decontamination to several orders than photocatalysis. In addition to focusing on increasing the rate of degradation, the main drawback of photocatalysis which is catalyst retrieval has been overcome using conducting substrates and nanomaterial coated substrates for efficient photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic decontamination of waste water. All the structural, morphological, chemical and optical properties were thoroughly studied using various characterization techniques such as XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, UV-DRS, PL respectively. The rate kinetics of dye, antibiotic and phenol degradation was examined. Experimental data was tested with the proposed model in the case of photoelectrocatalytic degradation. The photocatalysts were also studied for its reusability for many cycles. All the proposed works have analyzed the reason for the enhanced activity by performing scavenger reactions to determine the responsible reactive oxygen species. Thus, this thesis exhibits a thorough understanding of how to design and engineer nanomaterials for photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic water remediation. The following are the chapters discussed in this thesis. Chapter 1 discusses the drawbacks associated with the current waste water treatment methods and the possibilities of photocatalysis to replace the existing treatments. The advantages of certain transition metals, conventional methods of synthesis and various other properties of the nanomaterials have been discussed. Chapter 2 explains the synthesis of TiO2 nanobelts using combustion synthesized TiO2 under UV and solar irradiation. The catalyst has been characterized for its structural, morphological, chemical and optical properties. The degradation of anionic and cationic dyes and their activity against E.coli bacteria have been evaluated. The efficiency of this catalyst has been compared with commercial Degussa P25. This study shows the morphological influence of nanomaterials on photocatalytic activity. Chapter 3 describes the synthesis of Ag3PO4 impregnated combustion synthesized TiO2 nanobelts using co-precipitation technique. The activity of this material has been studied under solar light. The catalyst has been characterized for its structural, morphological, chemical and optical properties. Similar to the previous chapter, the degradation of dyes and the antibacterial activity of this catalyst has been compared with commercial Degussa P25. This study explains the importance of morphology and charge carrier facilitation in the case of heterojunction formation. Chapter 4 explains the synthesis of ceria nanoflakes by solution combustion method using ascorbic acid as fuel and PEG assisted sonochemical method. The catalyst has been characterized for its structural, morphological, chemical and optical properties. The effect of silver salts such as AgBr on ceria/Ag3PO4 under visible region for degradation of dyes and antibacterial activity has been evaluated. This work elucidates the effect of band engineering in the charge carrier dynamics between interfaces of components within the catalysts. Chapter 5 elucidates the synthesis of vanadium, nitrogen co doped TiO2 catalysts for the simultaneous degradation of microbes and antibiotics. The primary aim of this work is to understand whether interstitial or substituted doped nitrogen will be effective in the presence of vanadium. The photoactivity of this novel catalyst was studied for its synergistic degradation of antibiotics and bacteria simultaneously towards the prevention of microbial resistance towards antibiotics. Chloramphenicol and E.coli were subjected to photodegradation under visible light. Chapter 6 explains the synthesis of copper oxide based nanomaterial for antibiotic and bacterial degradation by photoelectrocatalysis. In order to enhance the rate of photodegradation, photocatalysis has been upgraded with the application of a potential to photocatalytic systems that possess better charge conducting capability. Highly network like copper oxide has been synthesized using conventional combustion synthesis method and compared with copper oxide nanorods synthesized by hydrothermal method. The rate kinetics of photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic degradation of antibiotics has been examined thoroughly and validated based on a cyclic network model. This work demonstrates the synergistic rate enhancing capacity upon combining photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. Chapter 7 discusses the fabrication of Cu/CuO/FTO (fluorine doped tin oxide) based substrates for bacterial degradation. Considering the difficulties in photocatalyst retrieval processes and realizing the importance of electrocatalysis, conducting substrates such as Cu strip, FTO were subjected to antibacterial treatment. Formation of copper oxide onto copper strip during the course of reaction forced us to develop CuO/Cu and CuO/FTO interfaces to examine the photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic killing of E.coli. Chapter 8 investigates the fabrication of Bi2O3/Ag based material for photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic degradation for phenols and substituted phenols. This work starts with fabrication of Bi2O3 working electrodes by chemical deposition. Photodegradation experiments were conducted under UV irradiation and enhancement of the rate of degradation was observed when the working electrode was deposited with silver nanoparticles via chemical reduction method. Formation of the intermediate Bi(OH)x on Bi2O3 or Bi2O3/Ag has resulted in better hydroxyl radical generation upon excitation. Similarly, surface plasmon resonance due to silver nanoparticles was found to be responsible for augmentation in degradation efficiency of phenol. Chapter 9 briefly summarizes the work and provides future directions. The research work thus attempts to design and engineer photocatalytic nanomaterials that are better than the existing materials and emphasizes the importance towards water remediation.