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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Parasuraman, Vijayarohini
• Sekar, Parasuraman Perumalswamy
• Lee, Hojae
• Sheraz, Mahshab
• Lee, Woo Ram
• Park, Tae Young
• Kim, Seungdo

Titel

A Remarkable Photocatalyst Filter for Indoor Air Treatment

Ist Teil von

• Catalysts, 2022-11, Vol.12 (11), p.1433

Ort / Verlag

Basel: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A crucial environmental public health risk is air pollution caused by organic contaminants, bio-aerosols, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5–10). A multi-purpose photocatalyst filter with photocatalytic nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide (PNT) incorporated into non-woven polymer fibers (NWPF) with wide applications is focused on in detail in this work. Loading of PNT on NWPF is carried out by the simple dip coating method. Para-xylene is selected as the target pollutant for the removal of organic contaminants. Higher removal efficiency of p-xylene (94.2%) is achieved under fluorescent daylight. The filtration efficiency of PNT is also evaluated to capture PM2.5–10, which is increased with higher loading content of PNT. At a high air flow rate, the filtration efficiency of the photocatalyst PNT/NWPF is 97.33%, whereas the efficiency of the pristine NWPF is 91.1%. Moreover, the PNT/NWPF filter exhibits excellent antibacterial activity (99.9%) under visible light irradiation, but the pristine NWPF filter has negligible destruction effects on pathogens. These results clearly indicate that a PNT-coated NWPF filter would be an outstanding multi-purpose material for indoor air purification systems.