Photocatalytic Reaction Engineering

Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a novel technique for water purification. Publications on photocatalysis span a relatively recent period of not more than 25 years. This is a technique that, according to our extensive experience on the development of laboratory scale and pilot plant units, has great promise to eliminate water and air pollutants. Photocatalysis offers much more than competitive techniques where pollutants are transferred from phases; photocatalysis can achieve complete mineralization of pollutants leaving non-toxic species such as CO2 and H2O and can be exploited at close to room temperature and ambient pressure.

List of contents

Establishing Photocatalytic Kinetic Rate Equations: Basic Principles and Parameters.- Novel Photocatalytic Reactors for Water and Air Treatment.- Photocatalysts, Radiation Sources and Auxiliary Equipment for Photocatalysis.- The Irradiation Field in Photocatalytic Reactors.- Kinetic Modeling of the Photocatalytic Reaction Network: The Parallel-Series Approximation.- The Energy Efficiency Factors in Photocatalytic Processes.- Water Decontamination of Organic Species: Modeling Reaction and Adsorption Processes.- Photocatalytic Degradation of Air Borne Pollutants.- Advances and Perspectives for Photocatalysis.

Summary

Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a novel technique for water purification. Publications on photocatalysis span a relatively recent period of not more than 25 years. This is a technique that, according to our extensive experience on the development of laboratory scale and pilot plant units, has great promise to eliminate water and air pollutants. Photocatalysis offers much more than competitive techniques where pollutants are transferred from phases; photocatalysis can achieve complete mineralization of pollutants leaving non-toxic species such as CO2 and H2O and can be exploited at close to room temperature and ambient pressure.

Product details

• Authors: Hug de Lasa, Hugo de Lasa, Hugo Lasa, Hugo de Lasa, Miguel Salaices, Benit Serrano, Benito Serrano
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441936271
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-3627-1
• No. of pages: 187
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 11 mm x 254 mm
• Weight: 387 g
• Illustrations: XII, 187 p. 121 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Chemical engineering; B, Pollution & threats to the environment, Pollution, Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Energy industries & utilities, Water pollution, Environmental Sciences, Air pollution, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Water supply & treatment, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering