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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 98, Issue 1, Pages 7-14Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2019-0143
Keywords
electrocatalytic degradation; safranine T; kinetics; operation parameters
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21576065, 21402038]
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The electrochemical degradation of safranine T (ST) in aqueous solution was studied. The effects of current density, initial concentration of ST, initial pH values, and Na2SO4 concentration on electrocatalytic degradation of ST in the aqueous solution by Ti/PbO2 electrode were analyzed. The experimental results showed that the electrochemical oxidization reaction of ST fitted a pseudo first order kinetics model. By using the Ti/PbO2 electrode as the anode, 99.96% of ST can be eliminated at 120 min. It means that the electrochemical degradation of ST in aqueous solution by the Ti/PbO2 electrode was very effective. The optimal reaction conditions were as follows: current density, 40 mA cm(-2); initial ST concentration, 100 mg L-1; Na2SO4 concentration, 0.20 mol L-1; initial pH, 6. It can be known from the test of UV-vis and HPLC in the reaction process that the intermediates will be generated, and the possible intermediate structure was studied by HPLC-MS test. However, with the progress of degradation reaction, the intermediates will eventually be oxidized into CO2 and H2O. Cyclic voltammetry and fluorescence experiments proved that ST was indirectly oxidized through the generation of hydroxyl radicals. Under the optimal reaction conditions, the energy required to completely remove ST was 17.92 kWh/m(3).
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