The following work provides a perspective on the potential application of solar heterogeneous photocatalysis, which is a nonselective advanced oxidation process considered as a sustainable technology, to assist in arsenic removal from water, which is a global threat to human health. Heterogeneous photocatalysis can oxidize trivalent arsenic to pentavalent arsenic, decreasing its toxicity and easing its removal with other technologies, such as chemical precipitation and adsorption. Several lab-scale arsenic photocatalytic oxidation and diverse solar heterogeneous photocatalytic operations carried out in different reactor designs are analyzed. It was found out that this technology has not been translated to operational pilot plant scale prototypes. General research on reactors is scarce, comprising a small percentage of the photocatalysis related scientific literature. It was possible to elucidate some operational parameters that a reactor must comply to operate efficiently. Reports on small-scale application shed light that in areas where other water purification technologies are economically and/or technically not suitable, and the solar energy is available, shed light on the fact that solar heterogeneous photocatalysis is highly promissory within a water purification process for removal of arsenic from water.
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