Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5599/jese.2014.0058
Electrochemical treatment of Acid Red 1 by electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton processes
Camilo González-Vargas
; Laboratorio de Electroquímica Medio Ambiental, LEQMA, Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACh, Casilla 40, Correo 33, Santiago, Chile
Ricardo Salazar
; Laboratori d’Electroquímica dels Materials i del Medi Ambient, Departament de Química Física, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Ignasi Sirés
; Laboratori d’Electroquímica dels Materials i del Medi Ambient, Departament de Química Física, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
Small volumes (100 mL) of acidic aqueous solutions with 30-200 mg L-1 TOC of the toxic azo dye Acid Red 1 (AR1) have been comparatively treated by various electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs). The electrolytic system consisted of a BDD anode able to produce ·OH and an air-diffusion cathode that generated H2O2, which subsequently reacted with added Fe2+ to yield additional ·OH from Fenton’s reaction. Under optimized conditions (i.e., 1.0 mM Fe2+, 60 mA cm-2, pH 3.0, 35 ºC), the analysis of the initial rates for decolourization and AR1 decay assuming a pseudo-first-order kinetics revealed a much higher rate constant for photoelectro-Fenton (PEF, ~ 2.7x10-3 s-1) compared to electro-Fenton (EF, ~ 0.6x10-3 s-1). Mineralization after 180 min was also greater in the former treatment (90 % vs 63 %). The use of UV radiation in PEF contributed to Fe(III) photoreduction as well as to photodecarboxylation of refractory intermediates, yielding a mineralization current efficiency as high as 85% during the treatment of solutions of 200 mg L-1 TOC. Primary reaction intermediates included three aromatic derivatives with the initial naphthalenic structure and four molecules only featuring benzenic rings, which were totally mineralized in PEF.
Keywords
Air-diffusion cathode; Azophloxine; boron-doped diamond (BDD); E128; EAOPs; decolourization; food azo dye; mineralization; Red 2G
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130223
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Publication date:
6.12.2014.
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