NOx degradation in a continuous large-scale reactor using full-size industrial photocatalytic tiles
Abstract
Many reactors were proposed to investigate the efficiency of photocatalytic materials in the degradation of NOx, but the operative conditions are often very far from reality: the parameters and the reactor set-up, which are good for laboratory tests, cannot verify the real efficiency of a photocatalytic material in a real context. To solve this issue, we experimented for the first time with a new kind of gas-flow reactor able to test photocatalytic building materials of large size, optimizing the reaction conditions in order to work both under artificial conditions of irradiation (UV-A lamp) and under direct sunshine.