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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0906110-204213 |
| Date | 06 September 2010 |
| Creators | Li, Wan-Hua |
| Contributors | Ming-Shean Chou, Chung-Shin Yuan, Chung-Hsuang Hung, Cheng-Di Dong |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906110-204213 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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