Characterization of novel solar based nitrogen doped titanium dioxide photocatalytic membrane for wastewater treatment

The increasing presence of microbial and emerging organic contaminants pose detrimental effects on the environment and ecosystem such as diseases, pandemics and toxicity. Most of these synthetic pollutants are biorecalcitrant and therefore persist in the environment. Conventional water treatment methods are not effective thereby necessitating the development of advanced techniques such as photocatalysis and membrane processes. In this study, visible light-driven photocatalytic membrane was synthesized through the immobilization of nitrogen-doped nanoparticles onto the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane and performance evaluated with