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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 15, Pages 9702-9710Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03212
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21976133]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [19DZ2271500]
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Fe(VI) has received increasing attention since it can decompose a wide range of trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) in water treatment. However, the role of short-lived Fe(IV) and Fe(V) in TrOC decomposition by Fe(VI) has been overlooked. Using methyl phenyl sulfoxide (PMSO), carbamazepine, and caffeine as probe TrOCs, we observed that the apparent second-order rate constants (k(app)) between TrOCs and Fe(VI) determined with the initial kinetics data were strongly dependent on the initial molar ratios of TrOCs to Fe(VI). Furthermore, the k(app) value increases gradually as the reaction proceeds. Several lines of evidence suggested that these phenomena were ascribed to the accumulation of Fe(IV) and Fe(V) arising from Fe(VI) decay. Kinetic models were built and employed to simulate the kinetics of Fe(VI) self-decay and the kinetics of PMSO degradation by Fe(VI). The modeling results revealed that PMSO was mainly degraded by Fe(IV) and Fe(V) rather than by Fe(VI) per se and Fe(V) played a dominant role, which was also supported by the density functional theory calculation results. Given that Fe(IV) and Fe(V) have much greater oxidizing reactivity than Fe(VI), this work urges the development of Fe(V)/Fe(IV)-based oxidation technology for efficient degradation of TrOCs.
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