A high‐efficient rotating disk photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) reactor with macro light harvesting pyramid‐surface electrode

Abstract

A series of pyramid‐surface TiO2/Ti electrodes were proposed, fabricated, and used in a rotating disk photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) reactor to treat rhodamine B (RB) solution. Compared with conventional planar electrode, pyramid‐surface electrode exhibited much lower light reflectivity, larger photocurrent, and better treatment efficiency. For samples containing 20 to 150 mg L−1 RB, 100– 98% color removal, and 87–30% COD removal were obtained in 150 min using 1/3 (h/w) pyramid‐surface electrode, much higher than 98–77% and 48–9% obtained by a conventional planer electrode. The excellent treatment performance attributed to two major reasons: (a) enhanced light harvest resulted from multiple reflections of irradiation light on the pyramid‐surface, and (b) enlarged electrode surface area enabling the electrode to carry more TiO2 catalyst and pollutants for treatment. Experimental results also showed that the pyramid‐surface electrode consumed less power and exhibited superior performance when treating high concentration wastewater. © 2011 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 58: 2448–2455, 2012

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