Radiation Modeling and Degradation Kinetics of a Contaminant of Emerging Concern in Packed-Bed Photocatalytic Reactors

MANASSERO, A.; ALFANO, O.M.; SATUF, M.L.

Buenos Aires

Congreso; 11th World Congress of Chemical Engineering; 2023

Asociación Argentina de Ingenieros Químicos

In this work, a strategy to obtain intrinsic kinetic parameters in a simple, cylindrical packed-bed photocatalytic reactor is presented. This information was used to simulate the performance of a more complex, annular packed-bed reactor, with different dimensions, type of lamps, and illumination arrangement. Clofibric acid (CA), the active metabolite of many pharmaceuticals employed as blood lipid regulators, was the pollutant chosen to validate the proposal.