Kinetics of Humic Acids Photodegradation in Aqueous Solution Using Ti02/ZnO/Co Composite Photocatalyst

摘要

Humic acid (HA) is a major component of natural organic substances and affects water quality, such as color, taste and odor. Therefore, removal of HA from surface water or wastewater is very important. In this paper, the photodegradation kinetics of these compounds using TiO_2/ZnO/Co composite photocatalyst under visible light irradiation was investigated. The progress of photocatalytic degradation of the HA has been observed by measuring the absorbance in UV-Visible spectrophotometer. The results reveal that the Ti02/ZnO/Co composite photocatalyst exhibits much better photocatalytic activity than those of pure TiO_2 and TiO_2/ZnO on photodegradation of HA under visible light irradiation, with degradation rate constants were found 0.0163, 0.0079 and 0.0032 (min~(-1)), respectively.