Photocatalytic Applications in Air Pollutants Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2020) | Viewed by 367
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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,
Photocatalysis has been extensively investigated for applications in pollution remediation, chemical synthesis, and innovation in sustainable energy. However, the photocatalysis applied to air pollutant photodegradation has not been as developed in research, and practically, there are no commercial or industrial applications, as studies have only been restricted to the field of building materials for indoor air decontamination.
The main problems that need to be solved come from the limitations of low levels of pollutants and from the low efficiency in solar energy conversion. The study of air purification by the photocatalytic oxidation of various pollutants, for example volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or inorganic gaseous compounds (NOx, SOx, CO, CO2, H2S, etc.) at low concentrations, is currently an issue that holds great interest for the development of commercially feasible processes.
In this Special Issue, research papers focused on photocatalysis or photocatalytic applications in air pollutant treatments are invited, especially those related to the photocatalytic materials and photocatalytic processes capable of achieving air purification, especially indoor air purification or sustainable photocatalytic processes for air decontamination, particularly using sunlight. Papers related to the photocatalytic generation of solar fuels from air pollutants are welcomed.
This Special Issue will incorporate original research and review articles covering the following:
- Photocatalytic materials for air purification
- Optimization of photocatalytic efficiency with solar energy
- Photocatalytic production of solar fuels from air pollutants
- Design of gas-phase photocatalytic reactors
- Intensification of photocatalytic reactors for solar energy conversion
- Modelling of photocatalytic reactors
- Photocatalytic reactor performance
- Case studies on photocatalytic sustainable processes for air purification using sunlight.
Prof. Dr. María Emma Borges
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photocatalysis
- photocatalytic reactors
- air pollutants
- solar energy
- photocatalytic efficiency
- air purtification
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