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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 22, Pages 13070-13085Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04177
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- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program of the U.S. Department of Defense [ER-2308, ER-2620, ER-2621]
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowship
- Ontario Research Fund Research Excellence Program (Ontario, Canada)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Program [449311-14]
- Czech Science Foundation [GF17-33779L]
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
- NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship
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Iron-based materials used in water treatment and groundwater remediation-especially micro- and nanosized zerovalent iron (nZVI)-can be more effective when modified with lower-valent forms of sulfur (i.e., sulfidated). Controlled sulfidation for this purpose (using sulfide, dithionite, etc.) is the main topic of this review, but insights are derived by comparison with related and comparatively well characterized processes such as corrosion of iron in sulfidic waters and abiotic natural attenuation by iron sulfide minerals. Material characterization shows that varying sulfidation protocols (e.g., concerted or sequential) and key operational variables (e.g., S/Fe ratio and sulfidation duration) result in materials with structures and morphologies ranging from core shell to multiphase. A meta-analysis of available kinetic data for dechlorination under anoxic conditions, shows that sulfidation usually increases dechlorination rates, and simultaneously hydrogen production is suppressed. Therefore, sulfidation can greatly improve the efficiency of utilization of reducing equivalents for contaminant removal. This benefit is most likely due to inhibited corrosion as a result of sulfidation. Sulfidation may also favor desirable pathways of contaminant removal, such as (i) dechlorination by reductive elimination rather than hydrogenolysis and (ii) sequestration of metals as sulfides that could be resistant to reoxidation. Under oxic conditions, sulfidation is shown to enhance heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of contaminants. These net effects of sulfidation on contaminant removal by iron-based materials may substantially improve their practical utility for water treatment and remediation of contaminated groundwater.
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