Mass Transfer Limitations in a Slurry Photocatalytic Reactor in Liquid Phase

BALLARI, MARÍA DE LOS MILAGROS; RODOLFO J. BRANDI; ORLANDO M. ALFANO; ALBERTO E. CASSANO

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Congreso; 4th European Meeting Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications; 2006

The majority of suspended solid photoreactor kinetic studies have considered perfect mixing conditions and have not performed a deep study of possible mass transport limitation effects in the performance of this kind of photoreactor. In the present work, the problem of the existence of diffusion control regimes in slurry photocatalytic reactors employing titanium dioxide is studied with simulation experiments in an existing reactor.