Increasing environmental pollution caused by toxic dyes due to their hazardous nature is a matter of great concern, and lacks the effective methods to remove them. Therefore, in this research a series of H3O40PW12/Quaternized chitosan (PWX%/QCS) membrane catalyst is synthesized based on QCS (positively charged) and keggin‐type H3O40PW12 (negatively charged), which is available to degrade rhodamine B. The optimum experimental conditions are investigated and results reveal that the degradation rate is over 92.1% and the chemical oxygen demand (COD) decreases is 78.09%, which is obtained based on the follow conditions is that the UV radiation is 90 min, the dose of membrane catalyst is 0.1g, the doping amount PW12 (H3O40PW12) is 35 wt%, RB aqueous solution (30mL) is 5mg/L, the reaction temperature is 30°C, pH = 5 and H2O2 is 20mM. The simulation result reveals that the photocatalytic degradation reaction of RB with PWX%/QCS membrane catalyst in an aqueous solution can be described by the Langmuir–Hinshelwood equation. And the initiation rate constant and the initiation adsorption constant in this case are 4.082mg/(L/min) and 0.01090L/mg, respectively.