Journal
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
Volume 220, Issue -, Pages 183-191Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2016.04.060
Keywords
N doped-TiO2; Diazinon; Mineralization; Response surface methodology; Simulated solar light; Photocatalyst
Funding
- Aja University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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The nitrogen doped. TiO2 (N-TiO2) was synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method using titanium (IV) butoxide as a titanium precursor and urea as a dopant source. The catalyst was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffractometry (XRD), surface area (BET method) and band gap energy by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). N-TiO2 is a mesoporous nanocrystal sheet with the mean pore diameter of 14.9 nm, specific surface area of 66.3 m(2)/g, crystallite size of 27 nm, and band gap energy of 2.83 eV. Response surface methodology (RSM) with central composite design (CCD) was utilized for the modeling and optimization of the operational photodegradation variables such as pH, catalyst loading, initial diazinon concentration, and irradiation time. Under the optimum conditions established, the performance of 85% and 63% for degradation and mineralization of diazinon were experimentally reached, respectively. Moreover, the obtained quadratic model showed high correlation (R-2 = 0.95 (degradation) and R-2 = 0.928 (mineralization)) between the predicted and experimental values. It was found that all the selected variables had an important effect on diazinon removal. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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