Waste Water Treatment Using Piezoelectric Materials: A Review on Piezo-photocatalysis

Abstract

Over time, industrialization, population expansion, building, and other human-related activities have made water contamination a major problem. As a result, steps towards waste water treatment must be taken. By using piezoelectric materials in the purifying process, a new area of waste water treatment known as piezo-photocatalysis has emerged. To improve the material’s water purification effectiveness, the piezoelectric action is paired with sun irradiation in this case. Up until this point, photocatalysis has served as a sophisticated method for purification. Thus, the piezoelectric materials became the center of attention in the quest for cutting-edge technologies for water purification. Piezoelectric materials have other potential applications outside of water treatment, including hydrogen production and carbon dioxide adsorption. The lead, barium, KNN, and bismuth perovskite compounds that have seen extensive usage in wastewater treatment are covered in this paper. These materials have the potential to achieve an efficiency of almost 100% when they combine the effects of piezoelectricity with photocatalysis. Consequently, the function of piezoelectric materials in wastewater treatment and the mechanism of piezo-photocatalysis are covered extensively in this paper.