This paper presents new photocatalysts obtained by treating carbon spheres (CS) and TiO in a microwave reactor at a pressure of 20 atm and a temperature of up to 300 °C for 15 min and then depositing TiO/CS composites on glass fibre cloths. Such highly CO-adsorbing photocatalysts showed photoactivity in the simultaneous water-splitting process, generating H, reducing CO to CO and CH, and reducing N to NH. In addition, calculations of the hydrogen balance involved in all reactions were performed. Adding 1 g of carbon spheres per 1 g of TiO maintained the high selectivity of nitrogen fixation at 95.87-99.5%, which was continuously removed from the gas phase into the water as NH ions.

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