Revisión de la literatura actual sobre los reactores solares que utilizan la fotocatálisis para la remoción de mercurio a través del TiO2

Abstract

The photocatalysis and its implementation through photocatalytic reactors or solar reactors have become relevant in the purification processes of pollutants. With industrial development the elimination of contaminants becomes increasingly complex, this due to the impregnation at the molecular level that these present in natural fluids such as water. Mercury being one of the most complex pollutants and most danger to public health, cases such as those in the municipality of Segovia and Remedios, which are considered as the third most polluted area in the world, mercury has come to present concentrations in water of up to 180 tons/year at the environment level. Photocatalysis by means of a semiconductor such as Tio2 is one of the most promising treatments regarding the treatment of heavy metals, the use of this technology in solar reactor equipment has become very striking, through this technology can be removed from 95% under initial conditions of 100 mg/l of mercury, thus being an economical and very viable way for the reduction of said pollutant.