Abstract
Volatile organic compounds, VOCs such as benzene and toluene are hazardous to human health even when exposed at low concentration due to their carcinogenic impact. Recently, photocatalytic degradation has received great attention from researchers as one of the promising method to lower VOC concentration in the air. Common photocatalyst used for this process is titanium dioxide, TiO2. However, TiO2 can only be activated under UV light range due to the wide band gap energy. Limited resources are the challenge faced in implementing photocatalytic degradation. This is because only 3% of the sunlight wavelength range is of UV light while the other 45% is of visible light. The conventional method, also known as the ‘one-factor-at-a-time’ is a common approach taken in photocatalytic degradation. This approach is usually difficult and the interaction between process parameters is complicated to interpret as it requires numerous experiments. Besides, the complexity of photocatalytic degradation also lies in predicting the removal efficiency of the pollutants. Hence, this study is attempted to modify the TiO2 photocatalyst and to activate it under visible light wavelength range.
Metadata
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Sikirman, Arman 2012873978 |
Contributors: | Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Thesis advisor Krishnan, Jagannathan UNSPECIFIED |
Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology > Chemicals |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Chemical Engineering |
Programme: | Doctor of Philosophy by Research (Chemical Engineering) |
Keywords: | Photocatalytic degradation, response surface methodology (RSM), artificial neural network (ANN) modelling |
Date: | 2017 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/103741 |
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