Effect of Fe-doped TiO2 Photocatalysts on the Degradation of Acid Orange

Yung-Tse Hung, Erick B. Butler, Ching-Cheng Chen, Mohammed Suleiman Al Ahmad, Yen Pei-Fu

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    Abstract

    The purpose of the research was to determine the photocatalytic degradation efficiency of acid orange 7 (AO7) using 2 mol% Fe-doped TiO 2 as photocatalysts under UV irradiation. Fe-doped TiO 2 powder synthesized by solid-reaction technique reveals the average particle size of 0.91 μm, BET surface area of 11.6 m 2 /g, a wide pore-size distribution with the average pore diameter of 3.2 nm and pore volume of 0.035 cm 3 /g. Within the experiment, AO7 was prepared as a synthetic textile wastewater at the initial concentration of 34 mg/L along with using various doses of Fe-doped TiO 2 photocatalysts. The results indicated that Fe-doped TiO 2 with dose of 0.100 g in 100 mL of AO7 reached the highest removal efficiency about 88.7%.

    Original languageAmerican English
    JournalIntegrated Ferroelectrics
    Volume168
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

    Keywords

    • Photocatalysts
    • X-ray photo-emission spectroscopy (XPS)
    • photocatalytic reaction

    Disciplines

    • Environmental Engineering

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