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According to the concentration of toxins in water reservoirs, cyanotoxins can cause severe intoxication. In this way technologies must be developed to remove or decrease the concentration of the some toxins from water. Furthermore, it is necessary to ensure that the byproduct of the processes used have low or no toxicity. One of the methodologies studied to this purpose is the Advanced Oxidation Processes and mixed oxides, that have attracted the attention due mainly to their good yields, low price and thermal stability. The efficiency of a photocatalytic process during degradation of organic pollutants depend on several factors. The present work has as its main objective to evaluate the photocatalytic performance of modified SrZrxSn1-xO3 oxides for MC-LR degradation in water supply using a Box–Behnken design. The oxides presented is novel and innovative product. The preparation of the material by chemical solution method and the application to microcystin degradation are novelty reported by the first time at this paper. The significance of some experimental factors as well as the interaction among them was studied. In addition, the cytotoxicity of the MC-LR degradation byproduct was evaluated and a degradation route suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sr(Ti,Nd)O3 was synthesized in order to evaluate the influence of the amount of neodymium on the thermal and structural properties of SrTiO3. The synthesis was carried out using the polymeric precursor method. A small mass gain was observed for the SrTiO3 and SrTi0.98Nd0.02O3 samples accompanied by an exothermic peak in the DTA curves. Other steps at higher temperatures are assigned to the combustion of the organic material and carbonate. Elimination of defects by previous calcination of the precursors is responsible by the short and long range ordering of the perovskite. Cubic phase was obtained for undoped and doped SrTiO3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sr(Ti,Nd)O3 was synthesized in order to evaluate the influence of the amount of neodymium on the thermal and structural properties of SrTiO3. The synthesis was carried out using the polymeric precursor method. A small mass gain was observed for the SrTiO3 and SrTi0.98Nd0.02O3 samples accompanied by an exothermic peak in the DTA curves. Other steps at higher temperatures are assigned to the combustion of the organic material and carbonate. Elimination of defects by previous calcination of the precursors is responsible by the short and long range ordering of the perovskite. Cubic phase was obtained for undoped and doped SrTiO3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SrSnO3 was synthesized by the polymeric precursor method with elimination of carbon in oxygen atmosphere at 250 °C for 24 h. The powder precursors were characterized by TG/DTA and high temperature X-ray diffraction (HTXRD). After calcination at 500, 600 and 700 °C for 2 h, samples were evaluated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared spectroscopy (IR) and Rietveld refinement of the XRD patterns for samples calcined at 900, 1,000 and 1,100 °C. During thermal treatment of the powder precursor ester combustion was followed by carbonate decomposition and perovskite crystallization. No phase transition was observed as usually presented in literature for SrSnO3 that had only a rearrangement of SnO6 polyhedra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SrSnO3 was synthesized by the polymeric precursor method with elimination of carbon in oxygen atmosphere at 250 °C for 24 h. The powder precursors were characterized by TG/DTA and high temperature X-ray diffraction (HTXRD). After calcination at 500, 600 and 700 °C for 2 h, samples were evaluated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared spectroscopy (IR) and Rietveld refinement of the XRD patterns for samples calcined at 900, 1,000 and 1,100 °C. During thermal treatment of the powder precursor ester combustion was followed by carbonate decomposition and perovskite crystallization. No phase transition was observed as usually presented in literature for SrSnO3 that had only a rearrangement of SnO6 polyhedra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]