In this work, titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalyst was generally immobilized onto glass plate support material by employing double sided adhesive tape (DSAT) as a thin layer binder. The photocatalytic performance of this new non-additive immobilization system was observed under the degradation of two different charges of dyes namely anionic reactive red 4 (RR4) and cationic methylene blue (MB) dyes. Photocatalytic degradation of RR4 and MB dyes under immobilized TiO2/DSAT were compared with TiO2 in suspension mode respectively. Immobilized TiO2/DSAT was observed to have up to 30 cycles of reusability thanks to DSAT that is able to provide a very strong intact between the glass plate and TiO2 layers. In fact, a better photodegradation activity was observed by number of photocatalysis cycles due to increasing pores formation on TiO2 surface as observed by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis.
BATCH ADSORPTION AND ISOTHERM STUDIES FOR THE REMOVAL OF MALACHITE GREEN AND REACTIVE RED 4 DYES BY USING AC-MnO2-NC PREPARED FROM Typha angustat L.