TREATMENT OF OIL PRODUCED WATER BY PROCESSES OF ADSORPTION AND HETEROGENEOUS PHOTOCATALYSIS USING ACTIVATED CARBON MATERIALS MODIFIED WITH TIO2
The glycerol-based activated carbon (AC), and the AC and TiO2 compounds synthesized by sol-gel from the use of titanium isopropoxide, were evaluated for their ability to remove phenol from sea water in a process discontinuous. The objective of this work was to apply adsorption and heterogeneous photocatalytic treatment to treat phenol. The materials used are an AC base and blended with TiO2 (CATi) were tested as photocatalysts in the presence of UV-C (254nm) and Visible (320-700nm) and adsorption tests. This work was removed in three parts: a preparation of the materials; characterization of physical-chemical characteristics such as Boehm titration, N2 adsorption and desorption, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron spectroscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD); and application in adsorption and photocalytic tests. In the effluent treatment trials parameters such as initial solution pH, catalyst dosage, and exposure time were analyzed. According to the results, the coals presented promising characteristics for applications in real systems.