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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-PROCESSES & IMPACTS
卷 19, 期 3, 页码 395-404出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7em00009j
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- National Science Foundation through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program [ACI-1452367, CHE-1611306]
- U. S. Department of Energy
- Office of Science
- Early Career Research Program [DE-SC0016269]
- National Science Foundation for the use of supercomputing resources through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [TG-ENG160024]
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) [1452367] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1611306] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Advanced oxidation processes that utilize highly oxidative radicals are widely used in water reuse treatment. In recent years, the application of sulfate radical (SO(4)c(center dot-)) as a promising oxidant for water treatment has gained increasing attention. To understand the efficiency of SO(4)c(center dot-) in the degradation of organic contaminants in wastewater effluent, it is important to be able to predict the reaction kinetics of various SO(4)c(center dot-) -driven oxidation reactions. In this study, we utilize density functional theory (DFT) and high-level wavefunction-based methods (including computationally-intensive coupled cluster methods), to explore the activation energies of SO(4)c(center dot-) -driven oxidation reactions on a series of benzene-derived contaminants. These high-level calculations encompass a wide set of reactions including 110 forward/reverse reactions and 5 different computational methods in total. Based on the high-level coupledcluster quantum calculations, we find that the popular M06-2X DFT functional is significantly more accurate for OH- additions than for SO(4)c(center dot-) reactions. Most importantly, we highlight some of the limitations and deficiencies of other computational methods, and we recommend the use of high-level quantum calculations to spot-check environmental chemistry reactions that may lie outside the training set of the M06-2X functional, particularly for water oxidation reactions that involve SO(4)c(center dot-) and other inorganic species.
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