A novel advanced oxidation process to degrade organic pollutants in wastewater:Microwave-activated persulfate oxidation

This article, for the first time, provides a novel advanced oxidation process based on sulfate radical （SO^4·-） to degrade organic pollutants in wastewater： microwave （MW）-activated persulfate oxidation （APO） with or without active carbon （AC）. Azo dye acid Orange 7 （AO7） is used as a model compound to investigate the high reactivity of MW-APO. It is found that AO7 （up to 1000 mg/L） is completely decolorized within 5-7 min under an 800 W MW furnace assisted-APO. In the presence of chloride ion （up to 0.50 mol/L）, the decolorization is still 100% completed, though delayed for about 1-2 min. Experiments are made to examine the enhancement by AC. It is exciting to find that the 100% decolorization of AO7 （500 mg/L） is achieved within 3 min by MW-APO using 1.0 g/L AC as catalyst, while the degradation efficiency maintains at 50% by MW energy without persulfate after about 5 min. Besides the destruction of visible light chromophore band of AO7 （484 nm）, during MW-APO, two bands in the ultraviolet region （228 nm and 310 nm） are rapidly broken down. The removal of COD is about 83%-95% for 500 mg/L AO7. SO^4·- is identified with quenching studies using specific alcohols. Both SO^4·- and ·OH could degrade AO7, but SO^4·- plays the dominant role. In a word, MW-APO AC is a new catalytic combustion technology for destruction of organic contamination even for high concentration.

Catalytic degradation of methylene blue by Fenton like system: model to the environmental reaction

To develop more efficient chemical methods for the demineralization of organic pollutants from water bodies, which one was also mimic to the nature, a degradation of methylene blue by Fe(Ⅲ) and H 2O 2 in the absence of light instead of Fe(Ⅱ) and H 2O 2 was studied. Results showed that use of Fe (Ⅲ) is more promising than Fe(Ⅱ). The present study reflects that Fenton reaction is more efficient, in the presence of a small amount of salicylic acid is added which is a one of the priority pollutant.

Ultradurable fluorinated V_(2)AlC for peroxymonosulfate activation in organic pollutant degradation processes

Vanadium‐based catalysts are considered the most promising materials to replace cobalt‐based catalysts for the activation of peroxymonosulfate(PMS)to degrade organic pollutants.However,these traditional vanadium species easily leak out metal ions that can affect the environment,even though the of vanadium is much less than that of cobalt.Compared to other vanadium‐based cata‐lysts,e.g.,V_(2)O_(3),fluorinated V_(2)AlC shows a high and constant activity and reusability regarding PMS activation.Furthermore,it features extremely low ion leakage.Active oxygen species scavenging and electron spin resonance measurements reveal that the main reactive oxygen species was 1O_(2),which was induced by a two‐dimensional confinement effect.More importantly,for the real‐life application of tetracycline(TC)degradation,the introduction of fluorine changed the adsorption mode of TC over the catalyst,thereby changing the degradation path.The intermediate products were detected by liquid‐chromatography mass spectroscopy(LC‐MS),and a possible degradation path was proposed.The environmental impact test of the decomposition products showed that the toxicity of the degradation intermediates was greatly reduced.Therefore,the investigated ultradu‐rable catalyst material provides a basis for the practical application of advanced PMS oxidation technology.

Using CO_(2)and oxidants for in situ regeneration of permeable reactive barriers for leachate-contaminated groundwater

Groundwater contamination near landfills is commonly caused by leachate leakage,and permeable reactive barriers(PRBs)are widely used for groundwater remediation.However,the deactivation and blockage of the reactive medium in PRBs limit their long-term effectiveness.In the current study,a new methodology was proposed for the in situ regeneration of PRB to remediate leachate-contaminated groundwater.CO_(2)coupled with oxidants was applied for the dispersion and regeneration of the fillers;by injecting CO_(2)to disperse the fillers,the permeability of the PRB was increased and the oxidants could flow evenly into the PRB.The results indicate that the optimumfiller proportion was zero-valent iron(ZVI)/zeolites/activated carbon(AC)=3:8:10 and the optimum oxidant proportion was COD/Na_(2)S_(2)O_(8)/H_(2)O_(2)/Fe^(2+)=1:5:6:5;the oxidation system of Fe^(2+)/H_(2)O_(2)/S_(2)O_(8)^(2−)has a high oxidation efficiency and persistence.The average regeneration rate of zeolites was 72.71%,and the average regeneration rate of AC was 68.40%;the permeability of PRB also increased.This technology is effective for the remediation of landfills in China that have large contaminated areas,an uneven pollutant concentration distribution,and a long pollution duration.The purification mode of long-term adsorption and short-time in situ oxidation can be applied to the remediation of long-term high-concentration organically polluted groundwater,where pollution sources are difficult to cut off.