The influence of various operational parameters including initial dye concentration, catalyst concentration, pH value, inlet gas concentration, and type of irradiation source was investigated on the efficiency of the photocatalytic ozonation removal of DR54. Various inorganic and organic reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers were applied to investigate the mechanism of photocatalytic ozonation. In addition, a three-layer perceptron neural network was developed for modeling the relationship between the operational parameters and decolorization efficiency of the dye. High R2 values were obtained for both the training and test data. |
