Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 90, Issue 4, Pages 1552-1557Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.09.004
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Microcystin-LR; Heterogeneous photocatalysis; TiO2; ZnO
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- Interdisciplinary Research Project on the Eutrophication of Waters in the Green River Reservoir
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In this work, the photocatalytic degradation of aqueous microcystin-LR was studied using TiO2 and ZnO as photocatalysts. The process was optimised and characterised at the bench scale (200 mL); both semiconductors exhibited a high degradation capacity at reaction times of 1 min (degradation greater than 95%). The transient species that were observed indicate that the degradation occurs via the multiple hydroxylation and elimination of the labile peptide residues of the molecule. When photocatalysis was applied in a continuous treatment system (20-50 L), the photocatalytic process exhibited a high degradation efficiency, which resulted in residual microcystin-LR concentrations that were less than 1 mu g L-1 (C-0 = 5 mu g L-1). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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