期刊
CATALYSTS
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/catal11040448
关键词
catalyst stability; metal organic frameworks; MIL-53(Fe); photocatalysis; solar radiation; water treatment
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)
- Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) of Spain [CTQ2015/64944]
- European Funds for Regional Development (FEDER, UE)
MIL-53(Fe) has been synthesized and studied for stability and photocatalytic activity in water. The results show that it exhibits good stability under acidic conditions but undergoes hydrolysis under alkaline conditions. In the presence of oxidants, it shows enhanced removal efficiency for pollutants in water.
MIL-53(Fe) is a metal organic framework that has been recently considered a heterogeneous photocatalyst candidate for the degradation of water pollutants under visible or solar radiation, though stability studies are rather scarce in the literature. In this work, MIL-53(Fe) was successfully synthesized by a solvothermal method and fully characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), N-2 adsorption-desorption isotherm, Thermogravimetric analysis coupled with mass spectrometry (TGA-MS), UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), elemental analysis and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF). The effects of pH, temperature, solar radiation and the presence of oxidants (i.e., electron acceptors) such as ozone, persulfate and hydrogen peroxide on the stability of MIL-53(Fe) in water were investigated. The as-synthetized MIL-53(Fe) exhibited relatively good stability in water at pH 4 but suffered fast hydrolysis at alkaline conditions. At pH 4-5, temperature, radiation (solar and visible radiation) and oxidants exerted negative effect on the stability of the metal-organic framework (MOF) in water, resulting in non-negligible amounts of metal (iron) and linker (terephthalic acid, H2BDC) leached out from MIL-53(Fe). The photocatalytic activity of MIL-53(Fe) under simulated solar radiation was studied using phenol and metoprolol as target pollutants. MIL-53(Fe) on its own removed less than 10% of the pollutants after 3 h of irradiation, while in the presence of ozone, persulfate or hydrogen peroxide, complete elimination of pollutants was achieved within 2 h of exposure to radiation. However, the presence of oxidants and the formation of some reaction intermediates (e.g., short-chain carboxylic acids) accelerated MIL-53(Fe) decarboxylation. The findings of this work suggest that MIL-53(Fe) should not be recommended as a heterogeneous photocatalyst for water treatment before carrying out a careful evaluation of its stability under actual reaction conditions.
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