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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 380, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.120822
Keywords
Photocatalysis; Methanol oxidation; Photooxidation; Oxygen vacancy; Solar energy conversion
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
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Methanol is widely applied in photocatalysis as a scavenger of holes, and is also studied as a model system for heterogeneous photocatalysis for the production of formaldehyde. Compared to commercial processes for formaldehyde production via thermal catalytic methanol oxidation, photocatalytic oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde may be more promising when considering the following aspects: 1) lower reaction temperature and pressure (generally operated at room temperature and ambient pressure); 2) lower cost of the energy source (such as solar light) and 3) easy-to-design reactive system. Photocatalytic methanol oxidation was carried out using four different bismuth-based semiconductors (BBS), Bi2WO6, Bi2MoO6, BiOBr and BiVO4, under varying system temperature (5-50 degrees C), bubbling speed (0.1-1.0 LPM), catalyst dosage (0.2-2.0 g/L), and initial methanol concentration (12.5-250 mM). It was found that the formaldehyde formation rate for all photocatalysts increased as a function of each of these system parameters. Of these four BBS, it was found that Bi2WO6 had the highest formaldehyde formation rate (0.081 mM/h). This work provides a new approach to produce formaldehyde using photocatalysis, and future work has also been proposed.
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