Title

Solar detoxification of nitroglycerine-contaminated water using immobilized titania

Abstract

A solar-driven photocatalytic process based on TiO2 has been developed to destroy nitroglycerine (NG) in aqueous solutions. The study involved the design and construction of a plate type photoreactor with immobilized TiO2 (Degussa P25). The bench scale experiments with the solar (one sun) photocatalytic system demonstrated destruction of NG from an initial concentration of 500 to less than 1 ppm, with CO2, nitrate ion and water being the major products of the decomposition. The platinization of TiO2 surface did not significantly affect the rate of NG decomposition. Rhodamine dye, as a model compound, was also photocatalytically decomposed in the solar photoreactor from concentrations of 10 to less than 0.01 ppm in 20 min. © 1994.

Publication Date

1-1-1994

Publication Title

Solar Energy

Volume

52

Issue

3

Number of Pages

283-288

Document Type

Article

Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-092X(94)90495-2

Socpus ID

0028395993 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0028395993

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