Catalytic activity evaluation of mesoporous α-GaOOH microspheres self-assembly

M. Muruganandham; Rominder Suri; Mika Sillanpaa; Bashir Ahmmad; Gang-Juan Lee; Jerry J. Wu

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.26, 348-353, June, 2015

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2014.12.008 Export Citation

Catalytic activity evaluation of mesoporous α-GaOOH microspheres self-assembly

M. Muruganandham^{1, 2, †}, Rominder Suri^{1, 3}, Mika Sillanpaa², Bashir Ahmmad⁴, Gang-Juan Lee⁵, and Jerry J. Wu^{5, †}

¹Water & Environmental Technology (WET) Center, Department of Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
²Laboratory of Green Chemistry, Faculty of Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Sammonkatu 12, 50130, Mikkeli, Finland
³, USA
⁴Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa 992-8510, Japan
⁵Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan, ROC, Korea

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The mesoporous α-GaOOH was synthesized using oxalic acid in a hydrothermal process at various hydrothermal temperatures and times. The nitrogen adsorption analysis indicated that α-GaOOH with surface areas ranging from 6 to 87 m2/g and pore sizes from 3.8 to 7.2 nm can be prepared by adjusting the experimental conditions. The photocatalytic hexavalent chromium reduction was studied under UV light irradiation and the results showed that α-GaOOH having higher surface area owned higher photocatalytic activity. The degradation of 2-ethoxy ethyl acetate in catalytic ozonation process showed that the degradation was enhanced over ozonation process in the presence of mesoporous α-GaOOH.

Keywords:α-GaOOH;Porous material;Photocatalyst;Catalytic ozonation;Chromium reduction

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