ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Effect of H2O2 Addition on Phenol Removal
from Wastewater Using TiO2/Al2O3
as Photocatalyst
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Department of Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University,
M. Curie-Sklodowska Sq. 3, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2009;18(6):989-993
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ABSTRACT
The photocatalytic oxidation of phenol in water in the band reactor with supported TiO2 catalysts was
investigated. Modified anatase/Al2O3 catalysts were used as the photocatalysts. The main aim of these studies
was to determine catalytic activity of TiO2/Al2O3 and V-TiO2/Al2O3 in the removal of phenol from water. The
effectiveness was measured in the configurations: TiO2/UV/O2/H2O2, TiO2/O2/H2O2, TiO2/UV/O2, and
TiO2/O2. It was found that 2 hours of water treatment is enough to obtain a significant COD reduction, and
that prolonging treatment time to 8 hours does not result in total phenol removal.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.