Avaliação da performance do sistema de fotocatalisadores SrZrxSn1-xO3, destinados a degradação do corante Remazol amarelo ouro utilizando planejamentos experimentais

Abstract

Water contamination by textile affluent has been consider an important environment problem in the modern society. It leads to visual pollution, DBO increasing, and many dyes and their sub products present themselves mutagens for the aquatic biodiversity. The treatment of contaminated affluent can be made by using physical, biological, or chemical process. Among the chemical processes, POA’s has been frequently used, in special, to guarantee an effective degradation of the contaminants. Among the most used POA’s, we highlight the heterogeneous photocatalysis. The most used catalysts are: TiO2, ZnO, FeO3, SiO2, ZnS. The mixed metallic oxides, de general formula ABO3, named as perovskite, act as photocatalysts and consist of versatile structurers capable of originating a big family of solids with excellent physical properties. The perovskites, such as the, such as the semiconductor system rZrxSn1-xO3 has demonstrated good results for degrading the textile dyes in affluent. This work evaluated the performance of the oxides that result from structural modifications of the perovskite system SrZrxSn1-xO3 (x = 0.25; 0.50 and 0.75) with respect to the discoloration of the yellow gold Remazol dye. The synthesized oxides were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, and Absorption Spectroscopy in the UV-Visible Region. To evaluate the performance of these oxides, we elaborated two types of experimental planning: the factorial design 2^4 , and the Box-Behnken design 3^4 . The analyzed factors were: structural modification, oxide mass, exposition time, and number of UV bulbs. The dye discoloration was related to the attenuation of the size of the wave 411 nm, by using UV-vis spectrophotometer. According to the analysis of the results of the factorial design 2^4 , the SrZr0,25Sn0,75O3 oxide presented a better performance than the others in the conditions of 3h of exposition in the presence with 1 UVC bulb. In the Box-behnken model, the SrZr0,50Sn0,50O3 and the SrZr0,25Sn0,75O3 presented the best discoloration in the time of 6h of exposition with 2 UVC bulbs.