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The model consists of a reaction-drift-diffusion-Poisson system that models the transport of electrons and holes in the semiconductor region and an equivalent system that describes the transport of reductants and oxidants, as well as other charged species, in the electrolyte region. The coupling between the semiconductor and the electrolyte is modeled through a set of interfacial reaction and current balance conditions. We present some numerical simulations to illustrate the quantitative behavior of the semiconductor-electrolyte system in both dark and illuminated environments. We show numerically that one can replace the electrolyte region in the system with a Schottky contact only when the bulk reductant-oxidant pair density is extremely high. 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