Enhancing toluene removal in a plasma photocatalytic system through a black TiO<sub>2</sub> photocatalyst

Bin ZHU (朱斌); Luyao ZHANG (张璐瑶); Yan YAN (闫妍); Meng LI (李猛); Yimin ZHU (朱益民)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ab3668

Plasma Science and Technology > 2019 > 21(11): 115503. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ab3668

Bin ZHU (朱斌), Luyao ZHANG (张璐瑶), Yan YAN (闫妍), Meng LI (李猛), Yimin ZHU (朱益民). Enhancing toluene removal in a plasma photocatalytic system through a black TiO₂ photocatalyst[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2019, 21(11): 115503. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ab3668

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Enhancing toluene removal in a plasma photocatalytic system through a black TiO₂ photocatalyst

Collaborative Innovation Center for Vessel Pollution Monitoring and Control, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, People's Republic of China

Funds: This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21808024) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DMU 3132018175).

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Received Date: May 07, 2019
Revised Date: July 28, 2019
Accepted Date: July 28, 2019

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An efficient toluene removal in air using a plasma photocatalytic system (PPS) not only needs favorable surface reactions over photocatalysts under the action of plasma, but also requires the photocatalysts to efficiently absorb light emitted from the discharge for driving the photocatalytic reactions. We report here that the PPS constructed by integrating a black titania (B-TiO₂) photocatalyst with a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) can effectively remove toluene with above 70% CO₂ selectivity and remarkably reduced the concentration of secondary pollutants of ozone and nitrogen oxides at a specific energy input of 1500 J·l⁻¹, while exhibiting good stability. Photocatalyst characterizations suggest that the B-TiO₂ provides a high concentration of oxygen vacancies for the surface oxidation of toluene in DBD, and efficiently absorbs ultraviolet–visible light emitted from the discharge to induce plasma photocatalytic oxidation of toluene. The presence of B-TiO₂ in the plasma region also results in a high discharge efficiency, facilitating the generation of large numbers of reactive species and thus the oxidation of toluene towards CO₂. The greatly enhanced performance of the PPS integrated with B-TiO₂ in toluene removal offers a promising approach to efficiently remove refractory volatile organic compounds from air at low temperatures.
- plasma photocatalysis,
- black TiO₂,
- synergetic effect,
- dielectric barrier discharge,
- toluene removal

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