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Two-Dimensional Modeling of an Externally Irradiated Slurry Photoreactor
Vincenzo AugugliaroVittorio LoddoGiovanni Palmisanosubject
Settore ING-IND/24 - Principi Di Ingegneria ChimicaMaterials sciencePhotonLangmuir-Hinshelwood kineticsGeneral Chemical EngineeringKineticsAnalytical chemistryexternally irradiated photoreactorLight intensityphotoreactor modelingAdsorptionDesorptionPhotocatalysisSlurrySettore CHIM/07 - Fondamenti Chimici Delle TecnologieIrradiationdescription
Abstract A batch cylindrical photocatalytic reactor, externally irradiated by 1–6 UV fluorescent lamps and containing a stirred slurry of polycrystalline TiO2, was modeled by coupling a modified Langmuir–Hinshelwood kinetics together with a two-dimensional light intensity field. The radiation field has been determined on the main assumptions of diffuse radiation, isotropic scattering and negligible backward reflected photon flow. The model has been applied to the photocatalytic oxidation of organic substrates which do not undergo homogeneous photochemical degradation. The model is characterized by the following four parameters: the kinetic constants of substrate adsorption, desorption and degradation and the exponent of the power law expressing the kinetics dependence on the light intensity. The model constants may be determined by applying a simple least-squares best fitting procedure.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-25 | International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering |