| Sumario: | n this research, an extension of the
kinetic and quantum yield model, as well as the evaluation of the radiation
absorption phenomena on a visible-LED reactor for the photocatalytic blue
wastewater degradation employing a novel polymeric material as a photocatalyst
was proposed. Three novel materials based on phenolic resins were developed,
and further characterized by electronic and optical techniques. The polymeric
semiconductors were evaluated for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene
blue, as well as for the synthetic blue wastewater treatment. The proposed kinetic
model, for further reactor design, takes into account the generation of electron-hole
pair and the reactive oxygen species via redox reactions, as well as the attack of
the reactive species to the pollutant. Also, the mechanistic contribution of the
different operational conditions was studied with the novel proposed effective
photocatalytic mechanism model. The proposed models were validated under
several operation conditions to evaluate its robustness
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