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.

Development in oxide metallurgy for improving the weldability of high -strength low-alloy steel-Combined deoxidizers and microalloying elements

The mechanisms of oxide metallurgy include inducing the formation of intragranular acicular ferrite(IAF)using micron-sized inclusions and restricting the growth of prior austenite grains(PAGs)by nanosized particles during welding.The chaotically oriented IAF and refined PAGs inhibit crack initiation and propagation in the steel,resulting in high impact toughness.This work summarizes the com-bined effect of deoxidizers and alloying elements,with the aim to provide a new perspective for the research and practice related to im-proving the impact toughness of the heat affected zone(HAZ)during the high heat input welding.Ti complex deoxidation with other strong deoxidants,such as Mg,Ca,Zr,and rare earth metals(REMs),can improve the toughness of the heat-affected zone(HAZ)by re-fining PAGs or increasing IAF contents.However,it is difficult to identify the specific phase responsible for IAF nucleation because ef-fective inclusions formed by complex deoxidation are usually multiphase.Increasing alloying elements,such as C,Si,Al,Nb,or Cr,con-tents can impair HAZ toughness.A high C content typically increases the number of coarse carbides and decreases the potency of IAF formation.Si,Cr,or Al addition leads to the formation of undesirable microstructures.Nb reduces the high-temperature stability of the precipitates.Mo,V,and B can enhance HAZ toughness.Mo-containing precipitates present good thermal stability.VN or V(C,N)is ef-fective in promoting IAF nucleation due to its good coherent crystallographic relationship with ferrite.The formation of the B-depleted zone around the inclusion promotes IAF formation.The interactions between alloying elements are complex,and the effect of adding dif-ferent alloying elements remains to be evaluated.In the future,the interactions between various alloying elements and their effects on ox-ide metallurgy,as well as the calculation of the nucleation effects of effective inclusions using first principles calculations will become the focus of oxide metallurgy.

Advanced Treatment of Biologically Treated Chemical Comprehensive Wastewater by Nano-TiO2 Photocatalytic Oxidation

Nano-TiO2 photocatalytic oxidation was used to perform the advanced treatment of biologically treated chemical comprehensive wastewater. The effects of reaction time,nano-TiO2 dosage and initial p H of the wastewater on the removal rate of COD were tested. The GC/MS and EEM techniques were used to qualitatively analyze organic compounds in the wastewater before and after treatment. The result showed that after the biologically treated chemical comprehensive wastewater was treated by nano-TiO2 photocatalytic oxidation under the conditions of reaction time 3 h,nano-TiO2 dosage 8 g/L,and pH 8. 0,the effluent COD was 61. 9 mg/L and its removal rate was 63. 8%. Additionally,the species of organic pollutants reduced from 12 to 6. Meanwhile,the content of humic-like and fulvic-like substances dropped dramatically.

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.

Petroleum Pollution of Groundwater in Zibo and Its Prevention Measures

The source of ground water supply in Dawu is an extremely huge one in Shandong province. Now it is faced with serious pollution of petroleum in Hougao area. Aiming at this problem, the petroleum pollution in aeration zone and in groundwater was analyzed. The result shows that the contaminant of groundwater comes from the leaching of petroleum in the soil horizon of aeration zone through precipitation, and the quick flow of groundwater makes the convection dominate themigration of contaminant. So movement of groundwater controls the distribution of petroleum contaminant, which is consistent with the direction of ground flow. Building a groundwater closure zone in Hougao is an effective method to stop the contaminated groundwater flowing toward the water supply source of Dawu. The petroleum contaminant can be effectively reduced through using the aeration, biological and oxidation technologies.

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.

Small Area ROM Design for Embedded Applications

The compact full custom layout design of a 16 kbit mask-programmable complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) read only memory (ROM) with low power dissipation is introduced. By optimizing storage cell size and peripheral circuit structure, the ROM has a small area of 0.050 mm2 with a power-delay product of 0.011 pJ/bit at +1.8 V. The high packing density and the excellent power-delay product have been achieved by using SMIC 0.18 μm 1P6M CMOS technology. A novel and simple sense amplifier/driver structure is presented which restores the signal full swing efficiently and reduces the signal rising time by 2.4 ns, as well as the memory access time. The ROM has a fast access time of 8.6 ns. As a consequence, the layout design not only can be embedded into microprocessor system as its program memory, but also can be fabricated individually as ROM ASIC.

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.