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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 17, Pages 9972-9982Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01894
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21507150, 21577162]
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control [15K10ESPCT]
- Innovation in Cross-functional Team Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [2015]
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The removal of low-concentration antibiotics from water to alleviate the potential threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes calls for the development of advanced treatment technologies with high efficiency. In this study, a novel graphene modified electro-Fenton (e-Fenton) catalytic membrane (EFCM) was fabricated for in situ degradation of low-concentration antibiotic florfenicol. The removal efficiency was 90%, much higher than that of electrochemical filtration (50%) and single filtration process (27%). This demonstrated that EFCM acted not only as a cathode for e-Fenton oxidation process in a continuous mode but also as a membrane barrier to concentrate and enhance the mass transfer of florfenicol, which increased its oxidation chances. The removal rate of florfenicol by EFCM was much higher (10.2 +/- 0.1 mg m(-2) +/- h(-1)) than single filtration (2.5 +/- 0.1 mg m(-2) h(-1)) or batch e-Fenton processes (4.3 +/- 0.05 mg m(-2) h(-1)). Long-term operation and fouling experiment further demonstrated the durability and antifouling property of EFCM. Four main degradation pathways of florfenicol were proposed by tracking the degradation byproducts. The above results highlighted the feasibility of this integrated membrane catalysis process for advanced water purification.
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