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Repeated fluctuation of Cu2+ concentration during photocatalytic purification of SMZ-Cu2+ combined pollution: Behavior, mechanism and application

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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
卷 447, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130768

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Cu2+; Antibiotics; Photocatalysis; Cu2+concentration fluctuation; Cu recovery

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In this study, the fluctuation of Cu2+ concentration during the photocatalytic purification of sulfamerazine (SMZ) and Cu2+ combined pollution was reported. The fluctuation was found to be closely related to the degradation process of SMZ, resulting from solution pH drop and formation of Cu-containing intermediates. Furthermore, the presence of SMZ greatly enhanced the deep removal of Cu2+ and the in-situ obtained Cu-decorated TiO2 photocatalyst showed excellent performance in water splitting, nitrogen fixation, and bacterial sterilization. These results confirmed the great potential of photocatalytic technology in purifying antibiotic-heavy metal combined pollution.
Although the effect of Cu2+ on antibiotic removal during photocatalytic reaction has been studied in depth, there is less known about the effect of antibiotics on Cu2+ removal. In this study, we report for the first time that, during the photocatalytic purification of sulfamerazine (SMZ) and Cu2+ combined pollution, Cu2+ concentration showed an obvious five-stage fluctuation, which was completely different from the simple promotion or inhi-bition reported in previous studies. By employing HPLC-MS analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculation, the repeated fluctuation of Cu2+ concentration was found to be closely related to the SMZ degra-dation process, mainly resulting from solution pH drop and formation of Cu-containing intermediates which acted as sacrificial agents for Cu2+ reduction. In addition, compared with the SMZ-free system, the presence of SMZ can greatly enhance the deep removal of Cu2+ (minimum Cu2+ concentration was only 0.17 mg/L vs. 1.28 mg/L without SMZ), and there was a wide time interval to ensure the efficient recovery of Cu metal. More interestingly, the in-situ obtained Cu-decorated TiO2 photocatalyst performed well in water splitting, nitrogen fixation and bacterial sterilization. Results of this study confirmed the great potential of photocatalytic tech-nology in purifying antibiotic-heavy metal combined pollution.

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