Abstract
Abstract Decolourization of C.I. Reactive Orange 16 (RO16) via photocatalysis involving TiO2/UV and TiO2/UV/oxidant systems has been investigated. The experiments were carried out in a stirred cylindrical batch photoreactor under UV irradiation. The effects of pH, TiO2 concentration and addition of electron acceptors such as H2O2, Na2S2O8 and Cu+ ions were studied. The decolourization efficiency followed the order of pH 3 > pH 9 > pH 6 in TiO2/UV system. The addition of Cu+ ions to TiO2/UV/oxidant system significantly increased the decolourization efficiency. The performance of addition of 0.5 mM Cu+ ions to TiO2/UV/Na2S2O8 system was also evaluated by using synthetic dye-bath effluent. The results reveal that almost complete decolourization (99%) was achieved with RO16, while 76% decolourization was obtained with synthetic dyebath effluent after 360 min of reaction time. Similar trend was observed with COD measurements. The rate of decolourization of RO16 was found to follow pseudo-first order kinetics a...
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