Synthesis and characterization of Fe-doped TiO2 on fiberglass cloth for the wastewater treatment reactor

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dc.contributor.authorAhmed, Faysal
dc.contributor.supervisorAhmadi, Keivan
dc.contributor.supervisorHerring, Rodney A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-05T02:54:56Z
dc.date.available2020-05-05T02:54:56Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-05-04
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
dc.degree.levelMaster of Applied Science M.A.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe photocatalytic wastewater treatment facility presented in this thesis is a promising economic green technology that can degrade wastewater’s organic and ammonia pollutants, which produce environmentally sensitive products like CO2, H2O, Nitrates, etc. that can be captured and used in many biological and engineering ways. Previous advances used for this research was determining the importance of cleaning the photocatalytic nanocrystals, Fe-TiO2, as one of the revolutionary improvements that expose and maximizes the active surface of the photocatalytic nanocrystals to the pollutants enabling the strong oxidants produced by the absorption of a photon, excitation of an electron and positive hole to produce oxidants on the surface of the nanocrystals. The oxidants indiscriminately produce CO2 and H2O from living and non-living organic matter to obtain near ~100% clean water. This research focused on taking the next steps in the development of a wastewater cleaning facility tested in our laboratory. An important step involved coating Fe-TiO2 crystals onto flexible, strong, fiber-glass cloth using a sol-gel processing method. Success was found in this research by applying the coated fiberglass cloth into a photoreactor aimed to clean a large amount of water rather than the laboratory scale.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationMoradi V, Ahmed F, Jun MB, Blackburn A, Herring RA. Acid-treated Fe-doped TiO2 as a high performance photocatalyst used for degradation of phenol under visible light irradiation. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 2019 Sep 1;83:183-94.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11720
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectPhotocatalysisen_US
dc.subjectElectrolysisen_US
dc.subjectDegradation Efficiencyen_US
dc.subjectSurface plasmonen_US
dc.subjectAdvanced Oxidationen_US
dc.subjectAcid cleaningen_US
dc.subjectPhenolen_US
dc.subjectMethyl Orangeen_US
dc.subjectPhoto-reactoren_US
dc.subjectFe-TiO2 nano-crystalen_US
dc.subjectFiberglass clothen_US
dc.subjectVisible lighten_US
dc.titleSynthesis and characterization of Fe-doped TiO2 on fiberglass cloth for the wastewater treatment reactoren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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