title: Electrochemical dechlorination of chloroform in neutral aqueous solution on palladium/foam-nickel and palladium/polymeric pyrrole film/foam-nickel electrodes.
abstract: Electrochemical dechlorination of chloroform in neutral aqueous solution was investigated using palladium-loaded electrodes at ambient temperature. Palladium/foam-nickel (Pd/foam-Ni) and palladium/polymeric pyrrole film/foam-nickel (Pd/PPy/foam-Ni) composite electrodes which provided catalytic surface for reductive dechlorination of chloroform in aqueous solution were prepared using an electrodepositing method. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs showed that polymeric pyrrole film modified the electrode-surface characteristics and resulted in the uniform dispersion of needle-shaped palladium particles on foam-Ni supporting electrode. The experimental results of dechlorination indicated that the removal efficiency of chloroform and current efficiency in neutral aqueous solution on Pd/PPy/foam-Ni electrode could be up to 36.8% and 33.0% at dechlorination current of 0.1 mA and dechlorination time of 180 min, which is much higher than that of Pd/foam-Ni electrode.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, China. zrsun@bjut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Zhirong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Baohua
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Qingnan
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Yongzhen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D002713:Chlorine / Q000737:chemistry; D002725:Chloroform / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009532:Nickel / Q000737:chemistry*; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D011758:Pyrroles / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D011758:Pyrroles; D002713:Chlorine; D010165:Palladium; D009532:Nickel; D002725:Chloroform