A dual-functional catalyst: wood-templated BiVO₄-CdS for wood dye wastewater.

ABSTRACT: A large quantity of wastewater is released from wood processing, posing a serious pollution problem to the natural environment. Photocatalysis has become a reliable method for effluent purification. In this paper, balsa-templated BiVO₄-CdS (BBC) was synthesized by impregnation calcination and chemical deposition using wood residue as a template. Rhodamine B (RhB) is used as a wood colorant and is present in wood processing wastewater. The performance of BBC in photocatalytic degradation with simultaneous hydrogen production was identified using RhB as simulated wood dye wastewater and a sacrificial electron donor. Compared to the BiVO₄-CdS without a template, the BBC exhibited higher photocatalytic degradation performance (98.32%), which was attributed to the laminar

SUBMITTER: Xia G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9832578 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature