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Degradation of UV-filter Benzophenon-3 in aqueous solution using TiO2 coated on quartz tubes

Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering volume 16, pages 213–228 (2018)Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Benzophenone-3 (BP-3), one of the emerging pollutants, is commercially synthesized as UV filter used in cosmetics and other personal care products and its occurrence in the aquatic environment has widely been reported. The goal of this study was to enhance an AOP method for degradation of UV filter Benzophenone-3 in aqueous solutions.

Method

In this study, sol-gel method was applied to synthesis TiO2 nanoparticles. Subsequently, the nanoparticles were successfully coated on quartz tubes. The synthesized catalyst was characterized using XRD, FE-SEM and EDX analysis. Then, the efficiency of photocatalytic process using TiO2 coated quartz tubes for BP-3 degradation from synthetic and real aqueous solution was assessed.

Result

The optimum contact time and solution pH for the highest BP-3 degradation in the synthetic solution were found at 15 min and 10, respectively. The maximum degradation (98%) of BP-3 by photocatalytic process was observed at 1 mg/L initial BP-3 concentration using 225 cm2 of catalyst surface area. Among the three applied kinetic models, the experimental data were found to follow the first-order equation more closely with the rate constant of 0.2, 0.048 and 0.035 1/min for 1, 3 and 5 mg/L of initial BP-3 concentration, respectively. In order to investigate the potential of this process for real effluent, the treatment of swimming pool water and wastewater treatment plant was examined and BP-3 degradation close to 88% and 32.1 was achieved, respectively.

Conclusion

Based on the obtained data, the photocatalytic process could successfully be applied for water treatment in swimming pools and other effluent containing BP-3 with low turbidity. The advantage of this study is that the synthesized catalyst can be used repeatedly needless to remove catalyst from the treated solution. In addition, AOPs can effectively eliminate organic compounds in aqueous phase, rather than transferring pollutants into another phase. The limitation of this study is that in solution with high turbidity photocatalytic degradation can be hampered and pre- treatment is needed to reduce turbidity.

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This research was financially supported by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences under #396490 and ethics code: IR.MUI.REC.1396.3.490.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Nazanin Moradi, Mohammad Mehdi Amin & Ali Fatehizadeh

  2. Student Research Committee, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Nazanin Moradi

  3. Environment Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Mohammad Mehdi Amin & Ali Fatehizadeh

  4. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Zahra Ghasemi

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Moradi, N., Amin, M.M., Fatehizadeh, A. et al. Degradation of UV-filter Benzophenon-3 in aqueous solution using TiO2 coated on quartz tubes. J Environ Health Sci Engineer 16, 213–228 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40201-018-0309-3

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Keywords

  • Benzophenone-3
  • UV filter
  • Photocatalysis
  • Swimming pool