Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2021.106268
Keywords
Trichloroethylene; Environmental contaminants; Reductive dechlorination; Bimetallic zero-valent iron; Water treatment; Composite
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Funding
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- U.S. federal Small Business Innovation.Research program [70NANB16H185, 70NANB17H231]
- U.S. Department of.Commerce
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This study investigates the impact of different carbon powders on the removal and transport properties of TCE, finding that certain properties of carbon do not affect TCE degradation while surface area, pore size, and functional groups are crucial for TCE adsorption. Smaller carbon particle size leads to a wider radius of influence when transporting the composite through porous media, indicating the potential for using carbon supports to enhance dehalogenation reactions and increase the longevity of NZVI.
Nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) has been proven effective at degrading environmental (sic)contaminants of concern, yet field performance as an in situ remedy is lacking due to short (sic)reactive lifetimes and poor transport through porous media. The main (sic)objective of this study was to investigate and compare the performance of different carbon (sic)powders with different properties (surface (sic)area, pore-volume, conductivity, functional groups) on trichloroethylene (TCE) removal and transport (sic)properties. Carbon (sic)powders were used as the support for bimetallic FeNi nanoparticles, the composites were stabilized by poly(vinyl pyrrolidone), and the performance of (sic)the modified novel FeNi-carbon composites was compared. It was confirmed that several properties of the carbon were found to not affect TCE degradation by the FeNi-C composites while (sic)surface area, pore size, and functional groups are responsible for TCE adsorption by carbon (sic)powders. Carbon particle size was found to inversely affect the transport of the composite (sic)through porous media, with smaller carbon supports such as carbon black correlating to a wider (sic)radius of influence, as compared to larger biochar carbon particulates. Significantly, FeNi-C (sic)shows improved TCE degradation over Fe or FeNi nanoparticles alone, indicating the utility of (sic)using carbon supports to promote dehalogenation reactions and increase NZVI longevity(sic).
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