COST540 Meeting
supported by CEN, AEPI, LA METRO, VILLE DE GRENOBLE and TERA Environnement

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN PHOTOCATALYSIS: FUNDAMENTALS, APPLICATIONS AND STANDARDIZED TEST METHODS

La Plateforme, Grenoble, France 18-19 January 2010



GENERAL INFORMATION

The aim of the meeting is to present recent achievements in the photocatalytic fields: fundamentals, applications and standardized test methods. During the meeting representatives and experts from COST Action 540 European countries gave brief survey about actual situation, regarding photocatalytic applications and testing towards industrial applications in their countries.



pdf version of Final programPROGRAMME OF THE MEETING


Monday, 18th January 2010


10:00 - 10:20 Welcoming coffee

10:20 - 10:25 Opening of the meeting

10:25 - 10:45 Introductory remarks and Session chair
Detlef BAHNEMANN, Chairman of Cost 540, Germany

10:45 - 12:45 The influence of rapid heat treatment on the photocatalytic activity of titania photocatalysis
Zsolt PAP, Faculty of chemistry and chemical engineering, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Long term experience in application of photocatalytic antibacterial coatings to breweries
Tapio MANTYLA, J. LAAKSO, E. LEVÄNEN (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland) and O. PRIHAAND, E. STORGARDS (Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland)

Synthesis and structural characteristics of nitrogen doped TiO2 aerogels
Mihaela POPA, D. MACOVEI, E. INDREA, I.C. POPESCU, V. DANCIU, Babes – Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Does N-doping of TiO2 by low temperature synthesis actually enhance its photoactivity in the visible spectral range?
S. LACOMBE, T. PIGOT, C. CANTAU, J.C. DUPIN, CNRS Université de Pau et Pays de l’Adour, France

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Ultra-hight efficiency for solar photon conversion : How to achieve it?
Luc BROHAN, Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes University, Nantes, France

Solar photocatalytic processes for water disinfection
Pilar FERNÁNDEZ-IBÁNEZ, Plataforma Solar de Almería – CIEMAT Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain

Development of modified TiO2/glass composites for NOx oxidation
Christos TRAPALIS, N. TODOROVA, R. DILLERT, D. BAHNEMANN, Institute of Materials Science, NCSR Demokritos, Attikis, Greece

First principles modeling of bandgap structures in compound Zn-Ti oxide photocatalysts
Jose C. CONESA, Instituto de Catalisis y Petroleoquimica, CSIC Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Effect of the crystal structure of nanometre TiO2 films on their photocatalytic activity
Marja-Leena KÄÄRIÄINEN, David CAMERON, ASTRaL, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00 Self-cleaning of textiles and cement plates, photo-sterilization through N-doped of TiO2 under visible light and DC-magneton-sputtering preparation of bactericide catalysts
John KIWI, Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Swiss

Photocatalytic textile with optical fibers for VOC removal
Chantal GUILLARD, IRCELYON, UMR CNRS-Université Lyon-1, France

Some topics of photocatalysis community in Japan
Koji TAKEUCHI, Research Institute for Environmental Management Technology (Emtech) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Japan

Eco-coating project: An investigation of the photocatalytical activity by in situ measurements
Laurence PEPIN, TERA Environnement, Crolles, France

AXELERA - Competitive Cluster Chemistry & Environment
Philippe LE THUAUT, AXELERA, France

18:15 Visit of Grenoble museum

20:00 Dinner


Tuesday, 19th January 2010


9:00 - 10:30 Normacat project: Development of new materials and systems for "photocatalytic" air treatment. Standardization of methods for characterization and performance tests
Pascal KALUZNY, TERA Environnement, France, Chairman of CEN – TC 386 for Photocatalysis

Flow through reactor for gas/solid standardization tests
Claudio MINERO, Universita di Torino, Torino, Italy

Overview of the AFNOR standard for air purifiers device
Benoît KARTHEUSER, Centre de Ressources TEchnologique en CHimie (CERTECH), Belgium

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Photocatalytic (nano) standardization and testing methods. Effort within COST 540 overview. Novel photocatalytic material - brake through info
Frantisek PETERKA, J. JIRKOVSKY, P. STAHEL, Z. NAVRATIL, Research Centre for Nanosurface Engineering (NANOPIN), Czech Republic

Recent achievements in test methods of photocatalytic surfaces in Slovenia
Urska LAVRENCIC-STANGAR, U. CERNIGOJ, M. KETE, M. TASBIHI, U. ZVAB (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia) and A. SEVER SKAPIN, V. DUCMAN (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Recent R&D efforts on photocatalytic products at the BRRC in Belgium
Elia BOONEN, Anne BEELDENS, Belgian Road Research Centre, Belgium

12:30 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 15:45 Investigation of toulene & n-decane photocatalytic oxidation at typical indoor air levels (50-800 ppb)
F. THEVENET, O. DEBONO, V. HEQUET, C. RAILLARD, L. LECOQ, N. LOCOGE, Ecole des Mines de Douai, Nantes, France

EOXO2LIT as novel photocatalyst nanomaterial composite application and methods to prove its unique performance
Marc LAMBERT, S. LAMBERT, J. (Eoxolit, Brussels, Belgium) and JIRKOVSKY, J. SUBRT, V. KALOUSEK (NANOPIN, Czech Republic)

Recent R&D efforts on photocatalytic products in Germany
Ralf DILLERT, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany

Development of portable instruments for testing of photocatalytic materials according ISO/CEN proposed tests
Zdenek NAVRATIL and Pavel STAHEL, Advex Instruments s.r.o. (spin-off company of Masaryk University), Brno, Czech Republic

15:45 - 16:00 Conclusion of the meeting
Detlef BAHNEMANN, Chairman of Cost 540, Germany