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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 5636-5644Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2017.10.054
Keywords
Photocatalysis; Semiconductor sulfides; Diclofenac; UV-Vis; Pollution abatement; Persistent organic pollutants; Modified clays; Montmorillonite; Nanocomposites
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- Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
- Group of Chemical Reactivity and Photoreactivity at University of A Coruna
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (Spain) [CTQ2015-71238-R]
- Xunta de Galicia [ED431B 2017/59]
- Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemisty (CSIC) [CTQ2013-48669-P]
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We report the aqueous photodegradation -under NUV-Vis radiation-of diclofenac, a common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug found to be persistent in the environment, using mont-La(6%)-Cu0.6Cd0.4S, a nanocomposite prepared by simple cation exchange and impregnation method. Operational parameters relevant for the process have optimized: amount of catalyst, dissolved oxygen concentration, initial diclofenac concentration and pH. Heterogeneous suspensions of 1 g L-1 of mont-La(6%)-Cu0.6Cd0.4S nanocomposite allowed removal of ca. 92% of 10 mg L-1 solution of diclofenac at pH = 5.9 with natural dissolved oxygen from air within 240 min, meanwhile TOC removal was 67%. The photocatalytic process is adequately described by the Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic model, following apparent pseudo-first order kinetics. A suitable reaction mechanism has been proposed, based on the available kinetic evidences and the reaction products observed by HPLC-MS analysis.
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