• Sopan T Adhao
• Anand S Burange

The increasing use of various drugs, recently their production goes up and along with that the problem of disposal of the unused drugs and effluents produced during production has creating an environmental problem. The adverse effects of these pollutant drugs and their organic effluents in water bodies have been the issue of concern for ecology of living system. As these chemical materials gets accumulated in the water bodies and decomposes slowly by consuming the dissolved oxygen from the aqueous medium and increases the chemical oxygen demand. So, in this regard various methods have been developed to control the amount of such material in water bodies such as chemical oxidation and irradiation by UV-light and microwave. However, that is not sufficient to reduce the solid effluent in the industrial production which releases in the normal water bodies. In this context the development of photo-sensitive catalyst for degradation of these pollutants is a promising solution for water treatment. A Nano amorphous MnO2 photocatalyst for degradation of diclofenac has been used and studied for various conditions of the aqueous medium. It was found to be a cheap and easy way to decompose the diclofenac and similar pollutants in the aqueous medium and could be used for treatment of waste water.

Photocatalysis, Diclofenac, Nano MnO2, Manganese Dioxide, Photocatalyst, Degradation.

"Studies On Photocatalytic Degradation Of Diclofenac Using Nano Amorphous MnO2 As a Photocatalyst An Overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.577-580, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808725.pdf

"Studies On Photocatalytic Degradation Of Diclofenac Using Nano Amorphous MnO2 As a Photocatalyst An Overview", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp577-580, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808725.pdf