Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Thi Thuy, Pham Thi Thu Hoai, Do Thi Minh Hanh
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Abstract
This study presents effective methods for utilizing the TiO2 photocatalyst in environmental remediation, with a particular focus on the removal of the carbofuran pesticide (CBFP) from wastewater. Silver (Ag) was selected as a potential dopant to improve the optical properties as well as the electron-hole pair separation efficiency of TiO2. Ag-doped TiO2 (Ag-TiO2) effectively decomposed 92.8% CBFP under solar light, which was significantly higher than that of TiO2 (21.3%). Ag-TiO2 also exhibited good reusability for CBFP degradation, with a reduction in removal efficiency of less than 3% after three cycles. In practical applications, Ag-TiO2 successfully degraded 89.3% of CBFP in wastewater and 98.7% in surface water. The findings of this work bring an effective method for removing pesticide pollutants using Ag-TiO2 photocatalyst.