Fabrication and Photocatalytic Degradation of TiO2/Porous Activated Carbon-Zeolite Composite Cylinder

Abstract

Activated carbon, zeolite and titanium dioxide are wildly used for removing the organic compounds in waste water. Although, these materials exhibit high performance (in powder form), reclaiming of these materials from the waste water treatment system is still hard. The objective of this study is to fabricate hollow cylinder activated carbon-zeolite samples which were used as a porous substrate. Various ratios of activated carbon, zeolite NaA and clay were mixed with special binder to form dough before extruded to be hollow cylinder shape. The hollow cylinder samples were cut into 2.5 cm long and then were fired at 600 °C for 2 hours under 5%CO2+N2 atmosphere. The fired samples were dip-coated with TiO2-P25 and fired at 600 °C for 1 hour under 5%CO2+N2 atmosphere for testing the photocatalytic degradation of lignin solutions under UV light. The results showed that the strength of fired samples increasing with the ratio of clay increased. The XRD patterns of samples having clay addition showed peaks of zeolite and quartz. The physical properties, microstructure and photodegradation will be discussed.