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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2014

Visible light photocatalytic water disinfection and its kinetics using Ag-doped titania nanoparticles.

Hassan Younas, Ishtiaq A Qazi, Imran Hashmi, M Ali Awan, Asif Mahmood, Hafiz Adil Qayyum

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Hassan YounasInstitute of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Sector H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan, younasseven@yahoo.com.
Ishtiaq A Qazi
Imran Hashmi
M Ali Awan
Asif Mahmood
Hafiz Adil Qayyum
National University of Sciences and Technology · PKKing Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · SAPeking University · CNUniversity of the Sciences · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The UN estimated about five million deaths every year due to water-borne diseases, accounting from four billion patients. Keeping in view, the ever increasing health issues and to undermine this statistics, a reliable and sustainable water-treatment method has been developed using visible light for water treatment. titania nanoparticles (NPs) have been synthesized successfully by a more applicable method Viz: liquid impregnation (LI) method. The bacterial death rate by photocatalysis under visible light was studied by employing a typical fluorescent source and was found to follow pseudo first-order reaction kinetics. The nanoparticles were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy to deduce their size range, surface morphology, and elemental compositions, respectively. Among all the prepared grades, 1% Ag-TiO2 was found to be a very effective photocatalytic agent against Escherichia coli. The resulted photoinactivated data were also evaluated by different empirical kinetic models for bacterial inactivation. Hom, Hom-power, Rational, and Selleck models were not able to explain the disinfection kinetics but modified-Hom model fitted best with the experimentally obtained data by producing a shoulder, log-linear, and a tail region.

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Photochemical ProcessesCatalysisColoring AgentsDisinfectionHumansKineticsLightNanoparticlesSilverTitaniumWater PurificationX-Ray DiffractionColoring AgentsSilverTitaniumtitanium dioxide

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PMID23872896
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