title: [Electrochemically reductive dechlorination of chloroform in aqueous medium by codeposited palladium-nickel glassy carbon as cathode].
abstract: The electrochemical deposition behaviors of Pd-Ni bimetal on glassy carbon (GC) electrode were studied by means of cyclic voltammetry (CV) based on orthogonal experiments. CV results reveal that Pd-Ni bimetal shows larger hydrogen adsorption peak than that of single Pd or Ni. The mixture of Ni2+ and Pd2+ can get hydrogen adsorption peak of -24.83 mA at - 500 mV (vs Hg/Hg2SO4). Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images reveal that nickel addition changes the distributing configuration of Pd microparticles on GC. And the appearance of Pd-Ni bimetal microparticles is distinctly different from that of single Pd and single Ni microparticles. Diameter of Pd-Ni microparticle is bigger than that of Pd microparticle and smaller than that of Ni microparticle. Effects of dechlorination current and time on removal efficiency of chloroform were also studied. The removal efficiency of chloroform increases at higher dechlorination current and longer dechlorination time. It reaches 42.53% when the dechlorination current and time are 0.5 mA and 180 min respectively on Pd-Ni/GC electrode prepared at optimum conditions. It can be envisioned that the removal efficiency of chloroform would increase further at longer dechlorination time.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, China. zrsun@bjut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Zhi-Rong
authors.initials: ZR
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Bao-Hua
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Yong-Zhen
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D002725:Chloroform / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004566:Electrodes; D004583:Electrons; D009532:Nickel / Q000737:chemistry*; D010165:Palladium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D010165:Palladium; D002244:Carbon; D009532:Nickel; D002725:Chloroform