Behnajady Mohammad A, Modirshahla Nasser
Research Laboratory, Department of Applied Chemistry, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, P.O. Box 1655, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2006 Nov;5(11):1078-81. doi: 10.1039/b610574b. Epub 2006 Oct 16.
The kinetics of decolorization of an anionic monoazo dye of acid class named C.I. Acid Red 27 (AR27) was investigated in the UV/TiO2 process with nonlinear regression analysis. The experimental results indicated that the kinetics of decolorization of AR27 in this process fit well by pseudo-first order kinetics. With nonlinear regression analysis a model was developed for pseudo-first order rate constant (k(ap,UV/TiO2)) as a function of operational parameters such as TiO2 dosage, initial concentration of AR27, concentration of O2 and UV-light intensity (I0) as following: k(ap,UV/TiO2) = 0.0025 TiO2 [AR27]0(-0.96) O2I0. This rate expression can be used for predicting k(ap,UV/TiO2) at different conditions.