The object of this study is to prepare iron species-impregnated granular activated carbon as particle electrodes in order to improve their adsorption and electrocatalytic degradation capacity in Benzothiazole removal....The object of this study is to prepare iron species-impregnated granular activated carbon as particle electrodes in order to improve their adsorption and electrocatalytic degradation capacity in Benzothiazole removal.The incorporation of Fe-containing catalysts was performed by Fe(NO_3)_3 impregnation.The obtained samples were characterized by BET,Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,SEM-EDS,powder X-ray diffraction,X-ray photoelectron spectra and TG.Compared with pure activated carbon,this modified particle electrodes show higher static adsorption capacities and TOC removal,which have respectively increased by25.9% and 54.4%.Both physisorption and chemisorption exist in the process of benzothiazole adsorption,where the latter plays a major role.In this way,the Fe-containing catalysts on modified particle electrodes are demonstrated to make a greater contribution to the improvement of electrocatalytic degradation by decreasing the activated energy by 32%.展开更多
Due to its persistence and bio-toxicity,benzothiazole(BTH) cannot be biodegraded efficiently.Recent work has shown that removal rates of biorefractory organics can be enhanced by the addition of cosubstrates.In this w...Due to its persistence and bio-toxicity,benzothiazole(BTH) cannot be biodegraded efficiently.Recent work has shown that removal rates of biorefractory organics can be enhanced by the addition of cosubstrates.In this work,ethanol,acetate,propionate and butyrate were added as co-substrates in order to promote the degradation of BTH in microbial electrolysis cell(MEC).By probing the changes in degradation rates of BTH in the presence of different co-substrates,it was observed that all the four co-substrates can enhance the BTH degradation in MEC,both the efficiency(EBTH) and the rate(RBTH).It was also found that acetate is more effective than others,which made the degradation efficiency of BTH up to 90% with acetate-C at350 mg/L(measuring by the carbon content of co-substrate,the same below),within 6 h and the degradation rate of BTH arrived 0.001 2/(mg·h).The microbacteria in MEC have also been influenced by different cosubstrates.This metabolism of the co-substrates enables the microbacteria on anode to generate ATP and thus grow to ensure the microbacteria activity.Therefore,this work showed that the addition of co-substrates such as acetate can be a novel and efficient approach for improving the elimination of BTH from wastewaters by MEC system.展开更多
基金Sponsored by Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment(Grant No.2013ZX07201007)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No.NCET-11-0795)
文摘The object of this study is to prepare iron species-impregnated granular activated carbon as particle electrodes in order to improve their adsorption and electrocatalytic degradation capacity in Benzothiazole removal.The incorporation of Fe-containing catalysts was performed by Fe(NO_3)_3 impregnation.The obtained samples were characterized by BET,Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,SEM-EDS,powder X-ray diffraction,X-ray photoelectron spectra and TG.Compared with pure activated carbon,this modified particle electrodes show higher static adsorption capacities and TOC removal,which have respectively increased by25.9% and 54.4%.Both physisorption and chemisorption exist in the process of benzothiazole adsorption,where the latter plays a major role.In this way,the Fe-containing catalysts on modified particle electrodes are demonstrated to make a greater contribution to the improvement of electrocatalytic degradation by decreasing the activated energy by 32%.
基金Sponsored by the National Water Pollution Control and Management Technology Major Projects(Grant No.2013ZX07201007)the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No.NCET-11-0795)the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment(Grant No.2012DX04)
文摘Due to its persistence and bio-toxicity,benzothiazole(BTH) cannot be biodegraded efficiently.Recent work has shown that removal rates of biorefractory organics can be enhanced by the addition of cosubstrates.In this work,ethanol,acetate,propionate and butyrate were added as co-substrates in order to promote the degradation of BTH in microbial electrolysis cell(MEC).By probing the changes in degradation rates of BTH in the presence of different co-substrates,it was observed that all the four co-substrates can enhance the BTH degradation in MEC,both the efficiency(EBTH) and the rate(RBTH).It was also found that acetate is more effective than others,which made the degradation efficiency of BTH up to 90% with acetate-C at350 mg/L(measuring by the carbon content of co-substrate,the same below),within 6 h and the degradation rate of BTH arrived 0.001 2/(mg·h).The microbacteria in MEC have also been influenced by different cosubstrates.This metabolism of the co-substrates enables the microbacteria on anode to generate ATP and thus grow to ensure the microbacteria activity.Therefore,this work showed that the addition of co-substrates such as acetate can be a novel and efficient approach for improving the elimination of BTH from wastewaters by MEC system.
