Scaling Up Of A Photocatalytic Reactor for Indoor Pollution Remediation

CLAUDIO PASSALIA; ORLANDO M. ALFANO; RODOLFO J. BRANDI

Praga

Encuentro; 6th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications; 2010

Institute of Chemical Technology Prague

Indoor pollution has become a major issue regarding environmental safety. People spend most of their time in confined places and are exposed to a wide variety of chemical pollutants. Formaldehyde (HCHO) is one of the most typical organic compounds present in polluted environments and it is harmless to humans even at low concentrations. The photocatalytic degradation of formaldehyde in gas phase has been addressed in a number of works with successful results.1,2 In this work, we develop a scaling up methodology for the photocatalytic degradation of formaldehyde in air directly from laboratory data to a bench reactor with different size, shape and configuration.