Commercial titania in photocatalytic discoloration of textile industry dye residues - DOI: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v28i1.1199

Textile effluents characteristically contain colored compounds resulting from dyes unfixed to fibers during the dyeing process that cause serious environmental problems. An alternative process to prevent environmental contamination by these dyes is to oxidize them through photocatalysis in the prese...

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Autores: Colpini, Leda Maria Saragiotto, Alves, Helton José, Santos, Onélia Aparecida Andreo dos, Costa, Creusa Maieru Macedo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta scientiarum. Technology (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/1199
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciTechnol/article/view/1199
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:titânia comercial
fotocatálise
corante reativo laranja-122
1.06.00.00-0 Química
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Sumario:Textile effluents characteristically contain colored compounds resulting from dyes unfixed to fibers during the dyeing process that cause serious environmental problems. An alternative process to prevent environmental contamination by these dyes is to oxidize them through photocatalysis in the presence of semiconducting oxides such as TiO2. In this sense, commercial TiO2 has been used as a catalyst in the photocatalytic study of discoloration of textile dye C.I. reactive orange-122 aqueous solutions. The photocatalytic reactions were carried in a thermostatized glass reactor and irradiated with a 15-W lamp. It was attained 100% dye discoloration in 120 min of reaction. This result indicates the efficiency of the TiO2 photocatalysis method in the discoloration of the studied dye