Lab-scale tubular LED UV reactor for continuous photocatalysis.

Stefan Herrmann, Lukas T Hirschwald, Karl H Heidmann, John Linkhorst, Matthias Wessling

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Influence of Reactor Configuration and Operating Conditions on Nanostructured Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution: A Systematic Technical Review.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Stefan HerrmannRWTH Aachen University, AVT.CVT - Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, Forckenbeckstr. 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Lukas T HirschwaldRWTH Aachen University, AVT.CVT - Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, Forckenbeckstr. 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Karl H HeidmannRWTH Aachen University, AVT.CVT - Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, Forckenbeckstr. 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

John LinkhorstRWTH Aachen University, AVT.CVT - Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, Forckenbeckstr. 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

Matthias WesslingRWTH Aachen University, AVT.CVT - Chair of Chemical Process Engineering, Forckenbeckstr. 51, 52074 Aachen, Germany.

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Abstract

Photocatalytic water treatment is considered a promising technique to prevent micropollutants from entering the environment. However, no off-the-shelf UV reactors on lab scale are available to study new processes and photocatalysts. In this study, we present a tubular UV reactor equipped with 30 UV-LEDs, emitting UV light at 367 nm and a total radiant flux of 42 W. The UV reactor has an irradiated length of 300 mm and can host any transparent chemical reactor on the inside with a maximum diameter of 28 mm. The device is optimized for lab experiments with total dimensions of just 334 mm x 193 mm x 172 mm. Besides water treatment, a broad range of other photochemical and photocatalytic experiments can be performed with the reactor. Two identical UV reactors have been built and are successfully used for photocatalytic water treatment experiments. The degradation of methylene blue with TiO

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PhotocatalysisTubular reactorUV-LEDsUV reactorWater treatment

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PMID38497030

DOI10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00506

PMCPMC10944131

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