Degradation of dyestuff wastewater using visible light in the presence of a novel nano TiO2 catalyst doped with upconversion luminescence agent |
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Authors: | WANG Jun WEN Fu-yu ZHANG Zhao-hong ZHANG Xiang-dong PAN Zhi-jun ZHANG Lei WANG Lei XU Liang KANG Ping-li and ZHANG Peng |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China 2. Department of Environment,Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China 3. Center of Analysis and Test, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China |
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Abstract: | A new upconversion luminescence agent, 40CdF2 x 60BaF2 x 0.8Er2O3, was synthesized and its fluorescent spectra were determined. This upconversion luminescence agent can emit five upconversion fluorescent peaks shown in the fluorescent spectra whose wavelengths are all below 387 nm under the excitation of 488 nm visible light. This upconversion luminescence agent was mixed into nano rutile TiO2 powder by ultrasonic and boiling dispersion and the novel doped nano TiO2 photocatalyst utilizing visible light was firstly prepared. The doped TiO2 powder was charactered by XRD and TEM and its photocatalytic activity was tested through the photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange as a model compound under the visible light irradiation emitted by six three basic color lamps. In order to compare the photocatalytic activities, the same experiment was carried out for undoped TiO2 powder. The degradation ratio of methyl orange in the presence of doped nano TiO2 powder reached 32.5% under visible light irradiation at 20 h which was obviously higher than the corresponding 1.64% in the presence of undoped nano TiO2 powder, which indicate the upconversion luminescence agent prepared as dopant can effectively turn visible lights to ultraviolet lights that are absorbed by nano TiO2 particles to produce the electron-cavity pairs. All the results show that the nano rutile TiO2 powder doped with upconversion luminescence agent is a promising photocatalyst using sunlight for treating the industry dye wastewater in great force. |
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Keywords: | upconversion luminescence agent nano TiO2 photocatalytic degradation visible light methyl orange |
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