The paper ‘The development of novel tailor-made photocatalytic reactor for sulfamethoxazole removal: Understanding mechanism and degradation pathway’ was published in the Chemical Engineering Journal. The co-authors of the text are Dr Adam Kubiak, Prof. Marcin Frankowski and Prof. Michał Cegłowski from the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań.
‘Over the last few years, pharmaceuticals have become one of the leading groups of pollutants in the aquatic environment. Many processes are used to remove them, including adsorption, photocatalysis or membrane techniques. However, each of these techniques has its limitations’, says Adam Kubiak.
The Poznan researchers have produced a TiO2-carbon fibre photocatalyst, which, thanks to its unique three-dimensional structure, allows for easy separation after the photocatalytic process, but also improves the contact between the photocatalyst and the degraded pollutant – sulfamethaxazole.
