Preparação de óxidos de zinco e avaliação da atividade fotocatalítica na degradação do azul de bromofenol

Abstract

The objective of the proposal study was to synthesize, characterize and asses the photocatalytic activity zinc oxide pure and doped with metals of transitions at the bromophenol blue degradation through the heterogeneous photocatalysis process using the light of the sun and the artificial light. The zinc oxides were obtained through the synthesis method by combustion, utilizing the ratio of 0,1% of reagent containing metals of transitions with the objective of providing the formation of synthesized oxides. The results demonstrated that the insertion of the metals to the zinc oxides significantly has contributed to the increase of all obtained parameters at BET technique. Specially, the increase of the area of the doped samples, mainly the samples doped with Mn and Ni, of which the values were A were 65,420 m2 g-1 and 62,315 m2 g-1 respectively. The spectra presented at the Espectroscopic analysis of electronic absorption at UV region- Visible showed the presence of two bands in the samples, with exception of the sample containing Ag in which the variation of peaks evidenced the interaction among the Zn and the metallic dopants. Although the oxide did not present a considerable specific superficial area ZnO/Ag presented a major photocatalytic activity in the blue bromofenol degradation. The results demonstrated that the insertion of metal in zinc oxides, contributed considerably to the degradation of the bromophenol blue compound.