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AWWA ACE70778
- Counter-Flow Silica-Titania Reactor for the Simultaneous Treatment of Air and Water Contaminated with VOCs
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of the motivation behind this study: volatile organic compounds (VOCs) cause significant adverse effects onhuman health and the environment; they are important indoor air pollutioncontaminants; and, largely used in industrial operations assolvents, VOCs are a common source forsubsurface contamination of drinking watersupplies. Conventional and alternative treatmenttechnologies for VOC removal and their disadvantages are listed, along with the challenges of TiO<sub>2</sub> Photocatalysisfor large scale implementation. Research objectives are presented: to design a photocatalytic reactor that can efficientlyremove VOCs in the gas and aqueous phasessimultaneously; and, to overcome major difficulties to implement PCO atthe large scale. The proposed treatment system is presented, including: the reactor(TPOT) with toluene as the target contaminant; commingled packing; STCs characterization; UV intensity distributionin TPOT; single phase adsorption oftoluene in TPOT; gas phase toluenephotocatalysis; aqueous phase toluenephotocatalysis; two-phase toluenephotocatalysis; and, parameters affecting tolueneremoval in two-phase system. Conclusions indicate that: wetting of the packing completely inhibited gasphase toluene photocatalysis; the oxidation of toluene is at the surface of thecatalyst and not in the bulk phase; when both phases are flowing simultaneously inthe TPOT, the conversion of toluene occurs atthe liquid/catalyst interface; higher removals than those found in the singlephase system can be achieved in the two phasesystem under optimum operating conditions; main advantage of two phase system isversatility, it can handle fluctuations to avoidstressing or overloading the system; and, although designed for VOCs, TPOT resultsshow the system's potential for removal of lowHenry's constant compounds. Includes tables, figures.
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