Preparation of iron-doped titania from flocculated sludge with iron-titanium composite coagulant
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- Journal Article
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- Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2013, 13 (6), pp. 4106 - 4109
- Issue Date:
- 2013-06-01
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The main drawback of flocculation process with dye wastewater is the large amount of unrecy-clable sludge which needs disposal. A novel process using Ti-salt flocculation to purify wastewater was developed to produced sludge that can be calcined to produce titania. In this study, irondoped TiO2 nanomaterial was successfully produced from sludge obtained by the flocculation of dye wastewater with a composite floculant including TiCl4 and FeSO4. The titania was characterised using scanning electron microscopy (SEM/EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and the photodecomposition of acetaldehyde. The XDR results showed that the anatase and rutile structures were found after sludge calcination at 550 °C and 640 °C respectively. The elemental analyses were carried out using EDX. The rutile titania sample consisted of Ti (35.7 wt.%), Fe (14.7 wt.%), O (42.3 wt.%), P (2.6 wt.%) and Ca (4.7 wt.%). The photocatalytic activity was monitored for the photodecomposition of gas acetaldehyde. Iron-doped titania seems to play an important role in increasing the photocatalytic activity under UV light irradiation. Copyright © 2013 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.
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