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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 77, Pages 73186-73196Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra11850j
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- Program for the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51378190, 51278176, 51408206, 51579098, 51521006]
- National Program for Support of Top-Notch Young Professionals of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0186]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT-13R17]
- Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department [521293050]
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This paper investigated how morphological and chemical features of biochars influenced hydroxyl radical (cOH) generation and sulfamethazine (SMT) degradation in the presence of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Effects of SMT adsorption on H2O2 activation by biochar were also studied. In this study, a series of wheat chars were pyrolyzed anaerobically at six heat treatment temperatures (HTT) (300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and 800 degrees C) and characterized for morphological and chemical features. Higher-temperature biochar led to the higher yield of cOH formed during H2O2 activation, which might be due to the better morphological features and higher content of basic character biochar obtained at high temperature. The degradation efficiency of SMT (13.7 mM) went up from 93.4% to 100% and the pseudo-first-order rate constant increased from 0.0211 min(-1) to 0.427 min(-1) with the increase of charring temperature in H2O2/biochar system. Furthermore, biochars' reactivity toward H2O2 was inhibited by the adsorption of SMT on their surface. The present findings highlighted the influence of morphological and chemical features of biochar on H2O2 activation, and provided a new approach for biochar application to organic contaminant removal.
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