Status and challenges in photocatalytic nanotechnology for cleaning air polluted with volatile organic compounds: visible light utilization and catalyst deactivation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 3185-3214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seunghyun Weon ◽  
Fei He ◽  
Wonyong Choi
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Visible Light ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Catalyst Deactivation ◽  
Semiconductor Nanoparticles ◽  
Air Purification ◽  
Environmental Technology ◽  
Light Utilization ◽  
Volatile Organic

Photocatalysis that utilizes semiconductor nanoparticles is one of the promising environmental technology for air purification.

scholarly journals Continuous Monitoring of Air Purification: A Study on Volatile Organic Compounds in a Gas Cell

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Fathy ◽  
Marie Le Pivert ◽  
Young Jai Kim ◽  
Mame Ousmane Ba ◽  
Mazen Erfan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Air Purification ◽  
Gas Cell ◽  
Oxide Nanowires ◽  
Continuous Adsorption ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Ftir Spectrometer ◽  
Preliminary Study

Air pollution is one of the major environmental issues that humanity is facing. Considering Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are among the most harmful gases that need to be detected, but also need to be eliminated using air purification technologies. In this work, we tackle both problems simultaneously by introducing an experimental setup enabling continuous measurement of the VOCs by online absorption spectroscopy using a MEMS-based Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, while those VOCs are continuously eliminated by continuous adsorption and photocatalysis, using zinc oxide nanowires (ZnO-NWs). The proposed setup enabled a preliminary study of the mechanisms involved in the purification process of acetone and toluene, taken as two different VOCs, also typical of those that can be found in tobacco smoke. Our experiments revealed very different behaviors for those two gases. An elimination ratio of 63% in 3 h was achieved for toluene, while it was only 14% for acetone under same conditions. Adsorption to the nanowires appears as the dominant mechanism for the acetone, while photocatalysis is dominant in case of the toluene.

Gas-Phase Destruction of VOCs Using TiO2/UV and TiO2/O3/UV

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosana M. Alberici ◽  
Wilson F. Jardim
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Photocatalytic Oxidation ◽  
Catalyst Deactivation ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Film Reactor ◽  
Catalytic Deactivation

AbstractGas-phase photocatalytic oxidation of different classes of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including alkanes, ketones, alcohols, chlorinated compounds and aromatic compounds, was investigated using an annular thin film reactor. For all organic compounds tested, catalytic deactivation was not observed, except for toluene (506 ppmv). For this compound, maximum destruction (87%) was maintained during the first 60 min of irradiation, dropping steadily due to catalyst deactivation to 20% after 150 min. The use of ozone as auxiliary agent in the photocatalytic oxidation of toluene and pyridine was also tested. For toluene, when O

Air purification system

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-122
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Sulfide ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Air Purification ◽  
Purification System ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
High Concentrations

An air purification system based on the use of specialized catalytic filling, designed to reduce high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide and volatile organic compounds is represented. The system is a 20 or 40 foot heated sea container in which two catalytic charge units are located: one is a working and the other is a reserve. Each block contains one cleaning step with a specialized ferrous charge.

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