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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 272, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129588
Keywords
Photocatalytic degradation; Titanium dioxide; Fe dopant; Oil palm empty fruit bunch waste; Activated carbon
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- Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia [FRGS/1/2018/TK10/UTAR/02/2]
- Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Research Fund (UTARRF) [IPSR/RMC/UTARRF/2020-C2/P01]
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The synthesized Fe-TiO2/AC demonstrated promising photocatalytic activity for the degradation of organic dyes, with Fe doping reducing recombination rates of electron-hole pairs and AC support enhancing adsorption capabilities. The hybrid catalyst achieved a removal efficiency of 97% for Malachite Green after 45 minutes of light irradiation with specific conditions.
Iron-doped titanium dioxide loaded on activated carbon (Fe-TiO2/AC) was successfully synthesized from oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) using sol-gel method. The properties of the synthesized pure TiO2, Fe-doped TiO2, AC, TiO2/AC and Fe-TiO2/AC were examined by various techniques such as field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-Vis DRS) and nitrogen adsorption-desorption analyses at 77 K. FE-SEM revealed that Fe-doped TiO2 particles were dispersed homogeneously on the AC surface. FT-IR demonstrated high surface hydroxylation after Fe doping on TiO2 and UV-Vis DRS showed that Fe-TiO2/AC had the lowest band gap energy. Catalytic performance results proved that Fe dopants could restrict the recombination rate of hole and electron pairs, whereas AC support improved the Malachite Green (MG) adsorption sites and active sites of the hybrid catalyst. Photocatalytic degradation of 100 mg/L MG in the presence of 1.0 g/L 15 wt% Fe-TiO2 incorporated with 25 wt% AC, initial solution pH of 4 and 3 mM H2O2 could achieve the highest removal efficiency of 97% after 45 min light irradiation. This work demonstrates a promising approach to synthesis an inexpensive and efficient Fe-TiO2/AC for the photocatalytic degradation of organic dye. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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