Autocatalytic Behaviour in the Heterogeneous Fenton Reaction Using Goethite as Catalyst

ORTIZ DE LA PLATA, G.; ALFANO, O.M.; CASSANO, A.E.

Palermo, Italia

Simposio; 5th European Meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications-SPEA 5; 2008

A new process among the Advanced Oxidation Technologies has received increasing attention in the last years. This application, a variation of one prviously known, is called Heterogeneous Fenton and it employs hydrogen peroxide and a shares some advantages with the classical Fenton process: (i) it can be significantly improved with temperature and (ii) it can be combined with UV radiation (the Heterogeneous Photo-Fenton reactio) which implies the possibility of using solar illumination.