Photodegradation of benzothiazole ionic liquids catalyzed by titanium dioxide and silver-loaded titanium dioxide

Cheap and efficient strategy for photocatalytic degradation of ionic liquids by La/Ce-codoped TiO2@PAM composites

Ionic liquids are regarded as green solvents mainly due to their non-volatile and easy regeneration and recycling properties. However, ionic liquids have negative effects on the environment and human health, especially alkyl imidazole ionic liquids are more toxic than traditional organic solutions. Studies on the toxicology, ecotoxicology, and degradation of ionic liquids are rarely found in the literature. Here, we prepared the cheap La and Ce-codoped TiO2@PAM (polyacrylamide) composite microspheres with a simple procedure for the first time to degrade three kinds of imidazole ionic liquids with high efficiency. The experimental results show that the composite La (0.25%) and Ce (0.15%)-codoped TiO2@PAM composite microspheres with calcination temperature of 450 °C had a high photocatalytic activity for 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate, 1-hexyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate, and 1-octyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate with the concentration of 10 mg/L. The photocatalysis degradation extent of the three ionic liquids is 97.4, 91.2, and 88.5% at 90 min. This work opened a new route for the simple preparation of cheap composite microspheres in the photocatalytic degradation of ionic liquids with a high efficiency.

Thermal, chemical, electrochemical, radiolytic and biological stability of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents

Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are regarded as two kinds of novel solvents with high tunability and they exist in liquid-state for a wide range of temperature....

Rapid photodegradation of methylene blue by laser-induced plasma

A new strategy was established for the degradation of wastewater-based organic pollutants. Laser-induced plasma (LIP) was used as an alternative UV light source to realise rapid photodegradation of methylene blue (MB), an organic pollutant. A conventional 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser was used for plasma excitation to degrade MB solutions. The results show that the LIP effectively degraded the organic matter, and the degradation efficiency was related to the UV component with wavelength less than 400 nm. The compositions of the plasma excited by different dielectric substrates are different owing to various mechanisms involving moderate heat dissipation and sonoluminescence. However, metallic substrates, especially Fe, can enhance the proportion of UV light and accelerate the degradation efficiency. In the process of methylene blue degradation, solution parameters, such as initial dye concentration, pH, irradiation time and hydrogen peroxide concentration, will affect the degradation efficiency. The conditions of effective degradation of methylene blue (10 mg L⁻¹ MB⁻¹ concentration, 50 mL L⁻¹ H₂O₂ concentration, pH = 3 and P = 60 mW) were obtained in this study, which can provide reference for practical application.

A new strategy was established for the degradation of wastewater-based organic pollutants.