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APPLIED CATALYSIS A-GENERAL
Volume 647, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2022.118899
Keywords
Titanium dioxide; Stearic acid; Kinetics; log -normal model; Films
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- US-Ireland RD Partnership [USI 132, COR]
- EPSRC [EP/R026645/1]
- Government of Saudi Arabia
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This study models and analyzes the kinetics of stearic acid removal by photocatalytic films using a log-normal distribution. The model is validated using different TiO2 films and the results show a relationship between the distribution in reactivity and the observed order of reaction.
The kinetics of stearic acid, SA, removal by photocatalytic films are modelled using a log-normal distribution in surface reactivity, which shows that as the distribution in reactivity, rho, increases, so too does the apparent order of reaction, m, of the observed variation in SA concentration, [SA], versus irradiation time, t. The model is used to fit the observed [SA] vs. t profiles exhibited by three very different TiO2 films, namely ActivTM self-cleaning glass, and prepared sol-gel TiO2 and P25 TiO2 films. These films show decay kinetics, with m = 0.3, 0.44 and 0.6, respectively, which fit the model predicted decay profiles with distribution width, rho, values, 0.4, 0.54 and 0.7, respectively. A Ag photocatalyst indicator ink is used on these films to highlight the non-uniform distribution in surface reactivity on the micron scale. The use of the log-normal model to better understand the kinetics exhibited by photocatalytic films is discussed briefly.
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