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Title: | Ensuring the overall combustion of herbicide metribuzin by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes. Study of operation variables, kinetics and degradation routes |
Author: | Guelfi, Diego Roberta de Vieira Ye, Zhihong Gozzi, Fábio De Oliveira, Silvio César Machulek Jr., Amílcar Brillas, Enric Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio |
Keywords: | Oxidació electroquímica Depuració d'aigües residuals Herbicides Electrolytic oxidation Purification of sewage Herbicides |
Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2018 |
Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
Abstract: | This article reports the electrochemical degradation of the herbicide metribuzin (MTZ) in sulfate medium by advanced oxidation processes like anodic oxidation with electrogenerated H2O2 (AO-H2O2), electro-Fenton (EF) and UVA photoelectro-Fenton (PEF). A boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode was combined with an air-diffusion cathode with ability to produce H2O2. Unprecedented overall combustion was feasible by all methods at a constant current density (j) ≥100.0 mA cm−2. The total organic carbon (TOC) removal achieved by AO-H2O2 was independent from pH within the range 3.0-9.0, whereas the oscillatory dependence of the pseudo-first-order MTZ decay rate constant with this variable was ascribed to adsorption on the BDD surface. In EF and PEF at pH 3.0, 0.50 mM Fe2+ was determined as optimum catalyst content and the MTZ removal showed two consecutive pseudo-first-order kinetic stages. These were related to the fast reaction of the target molecule with OH formed from Fenton's reaction, followed by a slower attack of physisorbed BDD(OH) onto Fe(III)-MTZ complexes. The effect of j and MTZ content on decay kinetics and TOC removal was examined. PEF was the best treatment due to the decomposition of photoactive intermediates by UVA radiation, yielding total mineralization of a 0.523 mM herbicide solution after 420 min of electrolysis at 100.0 mA cm−2. A thorough reaction pathway for MTZ degradation is proposed from the sixteen heteroaromatic by-products and three aliphatic molecules identified by GC-MS and LC-MS/MS. Oxalic and oxamic acids were detected as final carboxylic acids by ion-exclusion HPLC. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2018.10.029 |
It is part of: | Separation and Purification Technology, 2018, vol. 211, p. 637-645 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/147683 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2018.10.029 |
ISSN: | 1383-5866 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Ciència dels Materials i Química Física) |
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