Renewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integrating design, materials, methods, applications, economics, and sustainable development. The book begins by introducing solar energy and catalysis, before delving into cutting-edge photocatalyst technologies and applications. The third section focuses on regulations, economics, and commercialization, before the final chapters provide further in-depth coverage of environmental considerations, life cycle, and applications. The lens of sustainable development is applied throughout the book, with a view to developing renewable photocatalysts that support the reduction of CO2 emissions, net zero goals, and sustainable development. This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, and policy makers, with an interest in solar energy, photocatalysts, and sustainable development.
Table of Contents
Part 11. Solar energy technologies and catalysis: Principles and applications
2. Hybrid solar-powered photocatalysis systems for hydrogen production, observation, and application
3. Solar photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical, and photovoltaic-electrochemical systems for hydrogen production: Advanced technologies, challenges, and opportunities
4. Advancement of Z and S-scheme heterostructure photocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution
Part 2
5. Utilization of renewable photocatalysis systems to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve zero energy (NZE) targets
6. Renewable photocatalysis-driven water-splitting applications
7. Renewable photocatalysis for hydrogen production and application
8. Future photocatalysis applications: Fuel cells, solar conversion, self-cleaning and self-sterilizing coatings, food and healthy treatments, drug delivery, cancer treatment, and environmental radiation
9. Photocatalysis pathways for conservation and storage of energy
10. Empowering photocatalysts with Artificial Intelligence: Innovations and applications
11. Photocatalysis pathways for wastewater treatment
Part 3
12. Renewable energy-based power generation, contribution to global policy, and benefits for future economic growth
13. Renewable photocatalytic technologies: Global policy barriers and economic implications
14. Total cost of renewable photocatalytic establishment for sustainable energy future
15. Global economic benefits of developing renewable photocatalytic energy
16. Global renewable photocatalytic energy market: Commercialization and future trends
17. Photocatalysis integrating economic, commercialization, and social assessment for the future energy market
Part 4
18. SWOT analysis of photocatalytic technology in the market towards environmental remediation
19. The environment for different types of catalysts materials used in photocatalysts
20. Life cycle assessment of photocatalyst materials
21. Environmental effect on the photocatalytic process and convenience of semiconductor materials
22. A new type of nanomaterial for environmental applications in the photocatalytic degradation of water pollutants