title: Kinetics of liquid phase semiconductor photoassisted reactions: supporting observations for a pseudo-steady-state model.
abstract: The kinetics of liquid phase semiconductor photocatalytic and photoassisted reactions are an area of some debate, reignited recently by an article by Ollis(1) in which he proposed a simple pseudo-steady-state model to interpret the Langmuir-Hinshelwood type kinetics, commonly observed in such systems. In the current article, support for this model, over other models, is provided by a reinterpretation of the results of a study, reported initially in 1999,(2) of the photoassisted mineralization of 4-chlorophenol, 4-CP, by titania films and dispersions as a function of incident light intensity, I. On the basis of this model, these results indicate that 4-CP is adsorbed more strongly on P25 TiO2 when it is in a dispersed, rather than a film form, due to a higher rate constant for adsorption, k(1). In addition, the kinetics of 4-CP removal appear to depend on I(beta), where beta = 1 or 0.6 for when the TiO2 is in a film or a dispersed form, respectively. These findings are discussed both in terms of the pseudo-steady-state model and other popular kinetic models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XL, United Kingdom. a.mills@strath.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: Jishun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Ollis