Study on influencing factors and catalytic mechanism of p-nitrophenol degradation with sponge iron-based tri-metals
LI Fang-fang1,2, JU Yong-ming2,3, DENG Dong-yang2, JIA Wen-chao2, DING Zi-rong2, LEI Guo-yuan1
1. Department of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430000, China; 2. South China Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Guangzhou 510655, China; 3. Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Nanjing 210042, China
Abstract:Pd-(Cu-s-Fe0) trimetals were synthesized adopting with displacement reactions under ultrasonic conditions, and the surface structure of the aforementioned materials was further characterized with scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Moreover, the effects of noble metal loading sequence, the loading amount, input dosage and recycling reuse for the degradation of p-nitrophenol (PNP) was studied in detail. The experimental results show that the catalytic activity of Pd-(Cu-s-Fe0) was higher than that of Cu-(Pd-s-Fe0) and (Cu-Pd)-s-Fe0. The loading amounts of Cu and Pd were optimized as 5% and 0.025%, respectively. Under the optimized conditions including 30g/L of Pd-(Cu-s-Fe0), the removal content of PNP (100mL, initial concentration of 100mg/L) reached more than 80% after 30min of ultrasonic reactions, and the degradation reactions conformed to a pseudo-first-order kinetics equation. Furthermore, after 4times of recycling tests, Pd-(Cu-s-Fe0) showed good recycling performance. Based on the UV-visible spectral variations and high-performance liquid chromatography, we proposed the degradation mechanism mainly via catalytic reductions of PNP into p-aminophenol (PAP).
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LI Fang-fang, JU Yong-ming, DENG Dong-yang, JIA Wen-chao, DING Zi-rong, LEI Guo-yuan. Study on influencing factors and catalytic mechanism of p-nitrophenol degradation with sponge iron-based tri-metals. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2021, 41(10): 4670-4676.
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