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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2008, Article ID 759736, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2008/759736 Research Article A Photocatalytic Active Adsorbent for Gas Cleaning in a Fixed Bed Reactor Peter Pucher,1 Rabah Azouani,2 Andrei Kanaev,2 and Gernot Krammer3 1 Department of Chemical Apparatus Design, Particle Technology and Combustion, Graz University of Technology, Inff eldgasse 25/B, 8010 Graz, Austria 2 Laboratoire d’Ingenierie des Materiaux et des Hautes Pressions, CNRS, Institut Galilee, Universite Paris-Nord, ´ ´ ´ ´ 93430 Villetaneuse, France 3 Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Kolbjørn Hejes vei 1, 7491 Trondheim, Norway Correspondence should be addressed to Peter Pucher, peter.pucher@tugraz.at Received 24 July 2007; Accepted 27 February 2008 Recommended by Russell Howe Efficient photocatalysis for gas cleaning purposes requires a large accessible, illuminated active surface in a simple and compact reactor. Conventional concepts use powdered catalysts, which are nontransparent. Hence a uniform distribution of light is difficult to be attained. Our approach is based on a coarse granular, UV-A light transparent, and highly porous adsorbent that can be used in a simple fixed bed reactor. A novel sol-gel process with rapid micro mixing is used to coat a porous silica substrate with TiO2 -based nanoparticles. The resulting material posses a high adsorption capacity and a photocatalytic activity under UV-A illumination (PCAA = photocatalytic active adsorbent). Its photocatalytic performance was studied on the oxidation of tric