Performance of a membrane-catalyst for photocatalytic oxidation of volatile organic compounds

A. J. Maira, W. N. Lau, C. Y. Lee, P. L. Yue, C. K. Chan, K. L. Yeung

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Abstract

The performance of a hybrid Sil-1/nanostructured anatase TiO2 membrane-catalyst and a catalytic titanium silicalite-1 (TS-1) membrane was evaluated for gas-phase photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) of trichloroethylene. The membrane-catalyst outperformed the catalytic plate coated with a similar amount of nanostructured TiO2 catalyst. However, the activity of the catalytic TS-membrane for PCO is low due to the insufficient number of active titanium sites in the TS-1 zeolite. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)959-962
Number of pages4
JournalCHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume58
Issue number3-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2003
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Chemistry
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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