• ASWINI.R
• S.KOTHAI

Water pollution is a major issue for the environment and can disturb the entire ecosystem. To eradicate this problem, utilize an efficient photocatalyst for the degradation of toxic pollutants. Thus, we synthesized the CuO, Fe (Zero valent) nanoparticles by chemical method. The CuO, Fe (Zero valent) nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Analyser (EDX), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), UV-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Visible). The average crystallite size of the CuO (13 nm), Fe (Zero valent) nanoparticles (24 nm) was examined by XRD. The surface morphology was determined by FESEM. The comparative study of photocatalytic degradation of synthesized CuO, Fe (Zero valent) nanoparticles against methylene blue in two different environments like solar light, mercury light irradiation and results reveals that the synthesized CuO nanoparticles show 90 % photocatalytic degradation efficiency under mercury light irradiation was achieved within 180 minutes.

Nanoparticles, Surface Morphology, Methylene blue, Photocatalytic degradation, Irradiation

"Comparative Study on Photocatalytic degradation against methylene blue dye using CuO, Fe (Zero valent) Nanoparticles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no.a628-a634, March-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203076.pdf

"Comparative Study on Photocatalytic degradation against methylene blue dye using CuO, Fe (Zero valent) Nanoparticles", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 3, page no. ppa628-a634, March-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2203076.pdf