June 2021
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In this work, the effect of aromatic rings number on the photooxidation rate was studied by comparison photocatalytic degradation of an aqueous Sunset yellow, and Amaranth dyes by the suspension of ZnO catalyst. The effect of some parameters, such as mass of catalyst, initial dye concentration, initial pH of aqueous dye solution, and temperature were studied. The results indicate that the photo catalytic reactions are a pseudo first order reactions according to the Langmuir-Hinshelwood .Thermodynamic parameters such as: Ea, ΔH # , ΔS # and ΔG # were calculated .The activation energy has been found equal to, 5.493±1 and 5.088±1 kJ.mol-1 for Sunset yellow and Amaranth respectively. the results indicate that at low concentrations of dyes the number of aromatic rings has no effect on photooxidation rate but at higher concentrations we show the inversely relationship.