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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 394, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122564
Keywords
Carbon modification; Zero-valent iron; Trichloroethylene; Electron shuttling
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21876129 and51608431]
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Given that there are still some debates on the influence of carbon modification on zerovalent iron (ZVI) decontamination process, the roles of carbon on trichloroethylene (TCE) reduction by ZVI were re-investigated in this work. Compared to activated carbons (AC) with high adsorption ability, carbon fibers (CF) with good electronic conductivity performed much better in enhancing ZVI performance in terms of both reactivity and selectivity. Moreover, it was interesting to observe that a low carbon loading is sufficient to effectively improve TCE reduction and this promoting effect would decline with further increasing the carbon amounts from 1.0 wt. % to 50 wt.%. Regarding to the ZVI selectivity, a relatively high carbon loading (especially for CF, it may be as high as 50 wt.%) was needed to protect ZVI from non-productive reactions with H2O/H+ effectively. However, a mixture of 10 wt.% AC and 1.0 wt.% CF could combine their respective merits of inhibiting side reactions and enhancing TCE reduction, and thus simultaneously enhanced the reactivity and selectivity of ZVI. Mechanistic investigations revealed that carbon modification could enhance the ZVI performance through improving TCE adsorption and/or accelerating electron transfer, while the latter one may play a more important role especially at high carbon loadings.
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