The photocatalytic wastewater treatment facility presented in this thesis is a promising economic green technology that can degrade wastewater’s organic and ammonia pollutants, which produce environmentally sensitive products like CO2, H2O, Nitrates, etc. that can be captured and used in many biological and engineering ways. Previous advances used for this research was determining the importance of cleaning the photocatalytic nanocrystals, Fe-TiO2, as one of the revolutionary improvements that expose and maximizes the active surface of the photocatalytic nanocrystals to the pollutants enabling the strong oxidants produced by the absorption of a photon, excitation of an electron and positive hole to produce oxidants on the surface of the nanocrystals. The oxidants indiscriminately produce CO2 and H2O from living and non-living organic matter to obtain near ~100% clean water. This research focused on taking the next steps in the development of a wastewater cleaning facility tested in our laboratory. An important step involved coating Fe-TiO2 crystals onto flexible, strong, fiber-glass cloth using a sol-gel processing method. Success was found in this research by applying the coated fiberglass cloth into a photoreactor aimed to clean a large amount of water rather than the laboratory scale. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/11720 |
| Date | 04 May 2020 |
| Creators | Ahmed, Faysal |
| Contributors | Ahmadi, Keivan, Herring, Rodney A. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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