aqueous photocatalytic oxidation of lignin the influence of mineral admixtures水性光催化氧化木质素矿物掺合料的影响.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2007, Article ID 76730, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2007/76730 Research Article Aqueous Photocatalytic Oxidation of Lignin: The Influence of Mineral Admixtures Elina Portjanskaja1 and Sergei Preis2 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia 2 Department of Chemical Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland Received 28 March 2007; Revised 5 June 2007; Accepted 17 June 2007 Recommended by Jimmy C. Yu The photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) of UV-irradiated aqueous solutions containing lignin on TiO2 was studied for the influence of ferrous ions. The addition of Fe2+ , up to 2.8 mg L−1, to the acidic lignin solution leads to the drastic, for about 25%, increase in PCO efficiency. A further increase in ferrous ion concentration results in a decrease in PCO efficiency of lignin. The maximum PCO efficiency, up to 9.2 mg W−1h−1, was observed in neutral and slightly basic media: the oxidation mechanism with OH- radicals seems to prevail. Also, the difference in the PCO performance with a different attachment mode of titanium dioxide on the catalyst support was observed. Sprayed catalyst exhibited 1.5 times higher efficiency than the one attached by submersion, although sprayed one was easily resuspended in acidic lignin solutions. The efficiency of the N-doped photocatalyst active in visible light was observed to be negligible with lignin. Copyright © 2007 E. Portjanskaja and S. Preis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTI