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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 335, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117540
Keywords
Bimetallic biochar; Peroxydisulfate; Natural minerals; Fe; Mn-BC; 4-Dichlorophenol
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In this study, high-efficiency Fe/Mn-BC was synthesized using hematite, phosphoromanganese, and bagasse. The synthesized Fe/Mn-BC exhibited significantly better removal performance of 2,4-dichlorophenol compared to biochar and Fe/Mn complex. The system of Fe/Mn-BC + peroxydisulfate showed that sulfate radical and hydroxyl radicals had similar contributions to the degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenol.
Iron and manganese oxides/biochar composite materials (Fe/Mn-BC) are promising catalysts in the field of advanced oxidation. High purity chemical reagents are popular precursors for preparing Fe/Mn-BC, while the potential of low-cost natural minerals as precursors has been neglected. In this study, high-efficiency Fe/Mn-BC was synthesized by one-step pyrolysis method using hematite, phosphoromanganese, and bagasse. The synthesized Fe/Mn-BC removed 83.7% 2, 4-dichlorophenol (2, 4-DCP) within 30 min, about 8.8 and 10.6 times better than biochar (BC) and Fe/Mn complex, respectively. The removal of 2, 4-DCP in the Fe/Mn-BC + peroxydisulfate (PDS) system was influenced by catalyst dosage, PDS concentration, initial pH, organic acids, and chromium. Sulfate radical (SO4 center dot-) and hydroxyl radicals (center dot OH) generated by Fe/Mn-BC-activated PDS have similar contribution to the degradation of 2,4-DCP. A possible removal mechanism of 2, 4-DCP in the Fe/Mn-BC + PDS system was proposed based on Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy, free radical quenching experiments, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and electrochemical measurement. Fe0 and Fe(II) in Fe/Mn-BC play significant role in catalytic degradation of 2, 4-DCP at the early stage of the reaction (within 0-5 min). Then, the interaction between Mn and BC or structural Mn and structural Fe gradually became dominant in the later stage. Similarly, the electron transfer promoted by biochar also played an important role in this catalysis. This discovery provided a new strategy for developing iron and manganese oxides/biochar composite materials to activate PDS for the elimination of refractory organic pollutants.
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