Imaging Science and Photochemistry ›› 1999, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 61-65.DOI: 10.7517/j.issn.1674-0475.1999.01.61

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PHOTOREDUCTION OF CO2 IN THE SUSPENSION SYSTEM OF SEMICONDUCTOR CATALYST TiO2 MODIFIED BY PALLADIUM

XU Yongjun1, CHEN Fuming2, JIANG Linlin1, ZHOU Ding3   

  1. 1. Daqing Staffs and Workers University, Daqing 163255, P. R. China;
    2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China;
    3. Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, P. R. Ch
  • Received:1998-03-09 Revised:1998-09-28 Online:1999-02-20 Published:1999-02-20

Abstract: The experiment of photoreduction of CO2 was made in the suspension system of Pd/TiO2 under the illumination of visible light. The findings from the experiments are: (1) Formic acid is the major product of the photoreduction process and its quantum yield is relatively high; (2) The reaction rate increases with the increase of the illumination intensity as well as the feed flowrate of CO2. It can also be increased by adding an electron donor to the system and the increasing capacity is in the sequence of Na2C2O4>Na2SO3>NaH2PO2; (3) The photoreduction process was found to be an opposing reaction by dynamics analysis. A model of reaction mechanism, by which the calculated result consisted well with the experimental one, was proposed.

Key words: carbon dioxide, photoreduction, semiconductor photocatalyst, titanium dioxide, palladium