The Role of Solar Concentrators in Photocatalytic Wastewater Treatment

Joy Sankar Roy () and Younès Messaddeq
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Joy Sankar Roy: Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL), Laval University, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Younès Messaddeq: Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL), Laval University, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 16, 1-16

Abstract: The global challenge of sustainable and affordable wastewater treatment technology looms large as water pollution escalates steadily with the rapid pace of industrialization and population growth. The photocatalytic wastewater treatment is a cutting-edge and environmentally friendly technology that uses photons from light source to degrade and remove organic and inorganic contaminants from water. Thus, utilizing solar energy for photocatalytic wastewater treatment holds great promise as a renewable solution to alleviate pressures on the global water crisis. Employing solar concentrators to intensify sunlight for photocatalysis represents a promising avenue for future applications of a low-cost and rapid sustainable wastewater purification process. This groundbreaking approach will unveil fresh technological avenues for a cost-effective, sustainable, and swift wastewater purification process utilizing sunlight. This review article explores diverse solar concentrating systems and their potential applications in the wastewater treatment process.

Keywords: photocatalysis; wastewater treatment; solar concentrator; solar photocatalysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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