On the Selectivity of Simultaneous CO2 and N2 Reduction Using TiO2/Carbon Sphere Photocatalysts Prepared by Microwave Treatment and Mounted on Silica Cloth

Abstrakt

This paper presents new photocatalysts obtained by treating carbon spheres (CS) and TiO2 in a microwave reactor at a pressure of 20 atm and a temperature of up to 300 °C for 15 min and then depositing TiO2/CS composites on glass fibre cloths. Such highly CO2-adsorbing photocatalysts showed photoactivity in the simultaneous water-splitting process, generating H2, reducing CO2 to CO and CH4, and reducing N2 to NH3. In addition, calculations of the hydrogen balance involved in all reactions were performed. Adding 1 g of carbon spheres per 1 g of TiO2 maintained the high selectivity of nitrogen fixation at 95.87–99.5%, which was continuously removed from the gas phase into the water as NH4+ ions.

Opis

NOR/POLNORCCS/PhotoRed/0007/2019-00

Słowa kluczowe

photocatalytic CO2 reduction, nitrogen fixation, titanium dioxide, carbon spheres, microwave reactor

Cytowanie

Kusiak-Nejman, E. et al. (2023). On the Selectivity of Simultaneous CO2 and N2 Reduction Using TiO2/Carbon Sphere Photocatalysts Prepared by Microwave Treatment and Mounted on Silica Cloth. Materials, 16, 5810. doi 10.3390/ma16175810.