Abatement of volatile organic compounds using an annular photocatalytic reactor: Study of gaseous acetone |
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Authors: | G Vincent PM Marquaire O Zahraa |
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Institution: | aDépartement de Chimie Physique des Réactions, UMR 7630 CNRS, Nancy-Université, ENSIC, 1 rue Grandville, BP 20451, 54001 Nancy Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Photocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds in gas phase appears to be a promising process for remediation of polluted air. In the present work, the photocatalytic degradation of acetone, which is a typical pollutant of indoor air, was investigated by using an annular photoreactor. After a modelling by a cascade of elementary continuously stirred tank reactor, the annular photoreactor was assimilated to a plug flow reactor (PFR). No transfer limitation (external and internal) has been demonstrated for this reactor with the fibreglass photocatalytic support. The influence of several kinetic parameters has been studied such as pollutant concentration, incident light irradiance, contact time and humidity content. The Langmuir–Hinshelwood model has been verified for acetone. It can be noticed that no by-products have been detected by FID suggesting almost total mineralization. The possible minor gaseous by-products have been accumulated into a mixture of ethanol–liquid nitrogen at ?50 °C then a sample of it has been injected into a GC/MS for analysis. A mechanistic pathway is then proposed for the photocatalytic degradation of acetone. |
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Keywords: | Annular reactor Radiation field Kinetic modelling By-products Photocatalytic degradation mechanism |
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