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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 332, Issue -, Pages 59-69Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2017.02.055
Keywords
Emerging pollutants; Micropollutants; Titanium peroxo complex; Anatase-based photocatalysts
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- Spanish MINECO [MAT2016-78155-C2-1-R, MAT2013-40950-R, CTQ2011-29272-004-02]
- Government of the Principality of Asturias [GRUPINI4-060, GRUPINI4-078, BP-14-029]
- FEDER
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [16.2674.2014/K]
- Government of the Russian Federation [02.A03.21.0011, Act 211]
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The photocatalytic TiO2-assisted decomposition of 2-(4-methylphenoxy)ethanol (MPET) in aqueous solution has been studied for the first time. The intermediate compounds of MPET photodegradation have been also determined. A toxic p-cresol is formed in significant quantities during the photocatalytic reaction. A solvent-exchange approach for a template-free preparation of spherical TiO2 particles has been described, which is based solely on precipitation of hydrous titania from aqueous titanium peroxo complex by using organic solvents. The proposed method favours the formation of spherical titania particles with a mean size varying from 50 to 260 nm depending on the choice of solvent. The procedure for converting nonporous titania spheres into mesoporous material maintaining the same spherical morphology has been developed. The synthesized TiO2 spheres demonstrate a degree of MPET photo-degradation close to that of the commercial titania Aeroxide P25, besides being successfully recovered and reused for four reaction cycles without loss of photocatalytic activity. The effectiveness of the commercial Aeroxide P25 in MPET photodegradation, on the other hand, suffers 10-time drop during the third reaction cycle, which is attributed to its poor recoverability because the photocatalyst is composed of small particles of 20 nm size. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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