Titanium oxide has found different applications in environmental pollution remediation through its use as a photocatalyst for the purification of air and water. However, despite many advantages of TiO2, its use in unmodified form for photocatalytic reactions is hampered by a number of inherent physicochemical properties. The research in this thesis shows that TiO2 containing either copper (Cu) alone or combined copper-activated carbon (Cu-AC) are active in the simultaneous photocatalytic remediation of nitrate and oxalic acid, while pure titania and titania-activated carbon (TiO2/AC) composites found inactive for the reaction. In the case of photocatalytic removal of phenol, titania-thermally reduced graphene oxide (TiO2-TGO) exhibited superior photocatalytic performance than titania-graphene oxide (TiO2-GO) and pure TiO2.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:690586 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Adamu, Haruna |
| Publisher | University of Aberdeen |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230101 |
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