Photodegradation of Naphthol Green B in the presence of semiconducting antimony trisulphide
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- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by National Library of Serbia in Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society
- Vol. 76 (7) , 1049-1055
Abstract
Different methods of wastewater treatment are being used for the removal of dyes from their solution, but in most of the cases, either homogeneous catalysts or different adsorbents are used. These methods have their own merits and demerits. In the present work, antimony trisulphide was used as a heterogeneous catalyst. The effects of different parameters on the rate of the reaction were observed, such as pH, concentration of dye, amount of semiconductor and light intensity. A tentative mechanism is proposed in which the role of hydroxyl radical as an active oxidizing species is shown for degradation of Naphthol Green B.Keywords
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