Photocatalytic Applications for Water Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 9353
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Interests: photocatalysis for sustainable environmental applications: air/water decontamination, biofuels production, hydrogen from water splitting
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Dear Colleagues,
The need to preserve the environment has led to the search for new methods for the efficient removal of chemical compounds that alter the stability of our resources. This interest parallels the increasing need for green chemistry and sustainable decontamination processes. Water pollution is a fact of great importance since pollutants can accumulate and be transported by superficial and underground waters.
Photocatalysis is an advanced oxidation process, which is particularly interesting for the treatment of water because of its efficiency in neutralizing a wide variety of pollutants thanks to the generation of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals.
This technology is considered today as a competitor of classical purification techniques. Therefore, a lot of scientific studies and patents can be found in the literature, evidencing how photocatalysis has been a field in expansion over recent years.
Of special interest are technology applications that take advantage of sunlight for the treatment of wastewater containing non-biodegradable pollutants.
This Special Issue calls for papers on Photocatalysis and Photocatalytic sustainable processes for water treatment, covering topics regarding several applications for pollutants removal from water, emergent contaminants, photocatalytic materials for solar applications, etc.
Prof. Dr. María Emma Borges
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Photocatalysis
- Photocatalytic treatment
- Water treatment
- Solar photocatalysis
- Photocatalytic materials
- Emergent contaminants
- Solar-activated photocatalysts
- Photocatalytic industrial systems
- Solar-assisted photocatalytic systems
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