Hydrogen Production Through Water Splitting Reaction Using Titanium Dioxide (Tio2) Nanotubes Photocatalyst

  • Authors

    • Mohdhasmizamrazali .
    • Nurarifah Ismail
    • Khairulanuar Mat Amin
    2018-04-20
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.23.15332
  • Hydrogen, nanotubes, photocatalyst, titanium dioxide.

  • Nowadays, the most ideal process for hydrogen production is to use water as a hydrogen source through water splitting reaction with the present of the titanium dioxide photocatalysts. Titanium dioxide nanotubes (TiO2-NT’s) was synthesized using facile hydrothermal method. TEM micrograph shows that the synthesized TiO2-NT’s had tubular structure with “hair-like†nanoscopic filaments with large specific surface area, which is needed to be a high performance photocatalyst. The saiz of nanotube are 4 nm and 10 nm for inner and outer diameters, respectively. Meanwhile, their surface area was found to be 226.52 m2/g. XRD pattern revealed that the phase structure of synthesized TiO2-NT’s was anatase TiO2. Synthesized TiO2-NT’s was tested for hydrogen gas production managed to produce 80 µmol after 5 hours reaction.

     

     

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    ., M., Ismail, N., & Mat Amin, K. (2018). Hydrogen Production Through Water Splitting Reaction Using Titanium Dioxide (Tio2) Nanotubes Photocatalyst. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.23), 455-458. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.23.15332