Development of Sintering Materials by Sea Sediments and TiO2 for the Cleaning Technology

Abstract

A solar decontamination process for water was developed using photocatalysts supported on sea bottom sediments with sodium silicate. The supported catalysts were systematically optimized with respect to TiO2 dosages, calcinations temperature and binder dosages. The Young’s Modulus value (compressed strength) was found 12.5 kN/mm2 of optimized supported catalyst which would not mixed with the water of real samples during the photocatalysis. The composition of the optimized catalyst was selected as sediments 82%, TiO2 15% and Na2SiO3 3%, where the sintering temperature was 750C. Humic acid as a model compound was used to evaluate the degradation efficiency of the developed sintering material. The complete mineralization of humic acid was achieved by 40 h sunlight irradiation. About 100 ml of (15 mg/L) of humic acid was successfully degraded with 15 g sintering materials under sunlight irradiation. The solar photocatalytical degradation treatment is simple, easy handling and cheap. Therefore, since the artificial lamp devices, for example Hg-Xe lamp, are particularly expensive in the local and nonexclusive areas, the optimized developed sintering material appears to be very suitable treatment method for humic acid in those area.

Keywords

• sea Sediments
• cleaning technology
• solar decontamination