Environment and Occupational Safety Engineering
Vol. 34 No. 05 (2019): Proceedings of the Faculty of Technical Sciences
PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION OF IBUPROFEN BY A MIXTURE OF ZnO/TiO2 NANOPARTICLE POWDER
- Natalija Mišanović
- Dragana Štrbac
Abstract
In this paper, the efficiency of photocatalytic degradation of ibuprofen in the aqueous medium using photocatalysts based on nanoparticle powder which is activated by UV radiation, has been examined. The results indicates the justification of the combination of zinc oxide with titanyum (II) oxide in order to increase the efficiency of the photocatalytic decomposition process of ibuprofen and opens the prospect that some other mixtures could also improve these results.
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