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BULLETIN OF THE CHINESE CERAMIC SOCIETY ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (12): 4477-4486.

Special Issue: 新型功能材料

• New Functional Materials • Previous Articles    

Preparation and Photocatalytic Performance of TiO2-Al2O3 Composite Powder

DUAN Ning1, LI Chongrui1, LU Chenglong2,3, ZHANG Yinfeng2, ZHANG Xiangtai1, XIONG Jiangmin1   

  1. 1. School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China;
    2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation, Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi 435003, China;
    3. Hubei Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Technology of Advanced Material Manufacturing and Solid Waste Recycling, Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi 435003, China
  • Received:2022-07-11 Revised:2022-08-27 Online:2022-12-15 Published:2023-01-11

Abstract: The Al2O3 ceramic filter membrane is easily clogging by dye macromolecules during the process of filtering dye wastewater, resulting in a decrease in the water flux of the Al2O3 ceramic filter membrane. Ti(OH)4-AlOOH composite sol was prepared by the sol-gel method with butyl titanate and aluminum isopropoxide as precursors, and TiO2-Al2O3 composite powder was obtained by heating at a temperature of 450 ℃. The influence of the molar ratio of Ti(OH)4 and AlOOH on the particle size distribution of composite sols and the photocatalytic performance of TiO2-Al2O3 composite powders was characterized by using SEM, nanoparticle size/potential meter. The results show that when the molar ratio of Ti(OH)4 and AlOOH is between 0 and 0.4, the average particle size of the colloidal particles decreases from 67.5 nm to 34.0 nm with the increase of the molar ratio of Ti(OH)4 and AlOOH, and the Zeta potential of the Ti(OH)4-AlOOH composite sol increases from 43 mV to 53 mV. When the molar ratio of Ti(OH)4 and AlOOH is 0.4, the removal rate of crystal violet by composite powder up to 79.3%, and the reaction rate constant increases to 0.018 min-1. The ceramic membrane prepared by TiO2-Al2O3composite powder can effectively degrade the macromolecules deposited on the surface, and solve the problem of clogging of the ceramic membrane.

Key words: TiO2-Al2O3 composite powder, sol-gel method, ceramic membrane, photocatalysis, degradation, particle size

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