Chamchuri Bumrungsinmon. One step flame spray pyrolysis of nanocrystalline Ag doped TIO2 for photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Master's Degree(Chemical Engineering). มหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร. สำนักหอสมุดกลาง. : Silpakorn University, 2020.
One step flame spray pyrolysis of nanocrystalline Ag doped TIO2 for photocatalytic CO2 reduction
Abstract:
In this research, nanocrystalline silver (Ag) deposited on TiO2 support (Ag/TiO2) photocatalysts were prepared by dry impregnation method (IM) using commercial TiO2 (P25) as a support and flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) using titanium (IV) isopropoxide and silver nitrate as a Ti and Ag sources, respectively. The physiochemical properties of all photocatalyst were characterized by several techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Vis spectroscopy, Photoluminescence spectrometer (PL), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and N2-physicsorption (BET). The activities of photocatalyst were studied in photocatalytic CO2 reduction under UV irradiation at room temperature. The TEM result of IM-made catalyst exhibited a regular shape and well-dispersed Ag particles with the particle size around 2-3 nm. This result is similar to FSP-made catalyst. The XRD pattern of FSP-7%wt Ag/TiO2 photocatalyst showed the peak positions of silver metal phase while, the peak of Ag metal of other FSP-Ag/TiO2 and IM-Ag/TiO2 were not observed. This could be due to the fine dispersion of Ag metal on those supports or formation of amorphous particles. Increasing of Ag doping contents on TiO2 leaded to the decrease of the PL spectra. The band gap energy (Eg) was also decreased as the Ag loading content increased. The FSP-Ag/TiO2 displayed the yield of methane (umol/gCat.h) higher than pure TiO2 and the IM-Ag/TiO2. The energy band gap of all Ag/TiO2 was decreased by increasing Ag doped on TiO2. All Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts exhibits the photoactivity higher than pure TiO2. The best activity is FSP-7%wt Ag/TiO2 photocatalyst. The effect of the enhanced adsorption UV light, less recombination rate and less energy bandgap cause the highest photocatalytic activity.