ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Effective Removal of Humic Acid Using
Strontium-Doped TiO2 Coated on Porous Ceramic
Filter Media in Water Resource
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School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China
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State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China
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Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong, Vietnam
Submission date: 2017-10-10
Final revision date: 2017-11-21
Acceptance date: 2017-12-07
Online publication date: 2018-06-25
Publication date: 2018-07-09
Corresponding author
Dong Xu
State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Donghu South Road, No.7, 430072 Wuhan, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(6):2765-2774
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A photocatalyst comprised of strontium-doped TiO2 coated on porous ceramic filter media
(Sr-TiO2/PCFM) was prepared using the heat-treated process. The main objective of this study was
to investigate the effects of catalyst dosage, initial HA concentrations, pH, and temperature on the
adsorption and degradation of humic acid (HA) in a solution containing Sr-TiO2/PCFM under irradiation
of UV light. Removal efficiency of 84.25% for HA was achieved under experimental conditions for
a Sr-TiO2/PCFM dosage of 80 g at an initial concentration of 15 mg/L over a period of 8 h. Higher
degradation was found for HA in the acidic environment and at higher operating temperatures. The rate
of the adsorption reaction followed the pseudo second-order kinetics with the sorption isotherm well fitted
to the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm models. The oxidation rate constants of HA were evaluated
by using pseudo first-order kinetics that can describe the photodegradation process. Furthermore, the
photocatalytic stability of Sr-TiO2/PCFM was performed with 3 cycles reused. These findings suggest
that the Sr-TiO2/PCFM was found to be an effective and promising approach to eliminating HA in water
resources.