摘要
It is important to develop efficient technologies on removal of perfluorooctanoic acid(PFOA)and perfluorooctane sulfonate(PFOS)from water due to their wide distribution and potential threat to human health.In this work,a durable and convenient electrosorption device was designed in continuous flow mode to investigate the adsorption of PFOX(X=A and S)on multiwalled carbon nanotubes(MWNTs)from water under electrochemical assistance.The electrosorption experiments were conducted under different influent and electrolyte concentrations,hydraulic retention time(HRT)and electrode distance to optimize the operation.The results showed that the highest removal efficiencies toward both PFOA and PFOS could come up to 90%at 1 V.Compared with open circuit(OC)adsorption under the same conditions,the removal efficiencies were improved by 4.9 times(PFOA)and 4.2 times(PFOS)respectively.In addition,the MWNTs electrode was found to be reusable.These findings provide an efficient method to remove PFOX from water by electrosorption in continuous flow mode.
It is important to develop efficient technologies on removal of perfluorooctanoic acid （PFOA） and perfluorooctane sulfonate （PFOS） from water due to their wide distribution and potential threat to human health. In this work, a durable and convenient electrosorption device was designed in continuous flow mode to investigate the adsorption of PFOX （X = A and S） on multiwalled carbon nanotubes （MWNTs） from water under electrochemical assistance. The electrosorption experiments were conducted under different influent and electrolyte concentrations, hydraulic retention time （HRT） and electrode distance to optimize the operation. The results showed that the highest removal efficiencies toward both PFOA and PFOS could come up to 90 % at 1 V. Compared with open circuit （OC） adsorption under the same conditions, the removal efficiencies were improved by 4.9 times （PFOA） and 4.2 times （PFOS） respectively. In addition, the MWNTs electrode was found to be reusable. These findings provide an efficient method to remove PFOX from water by electrosorption in continuous flow mode.
基金
supported by the National Crucial Research Project for Water Pollution Control of China (2012ZX07202006)
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (DUT14QY01 and DUT13LK19)
关键词
多壁碳纳米管
电化学吸附
PFOS
PFOA
水力停留时间
流模式
碳纳米管电极
电解质浓度
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes（MWNTs）
Perfluorooctanoic acid （PFOA）
Perfluorooctane sulfonate （PFOS）
Electrochemicalassistance
Electrosorption device
