title: Degradation of nitrobenzene in simulated wastewater by iron-carbon micro-electrolysis packing.
abstract: The reductive degradation of nitrobenzene (NB) by iron-carbon micro-electrolysis packing was investigated. The influence of initial NB concentration, pH value and packing amount on the removal rate of NB were studied. The results showed that the reaction with packing followed the pseudo-first-order reaction. The optimum pH was 3.0 for the degradation of NB in the tested pH ranges of 3-9 and the optimum packing amount was 40 g/200 ml. The flow-through column packed with packing was designed to remove NB from simulated wastewater for approximately 68 days. The removal rate was over 90% within initial periods. It could be seen that after running for 68 days, the packing still had good performance after the long-term column experiment. In addition, the changes of the packing surfaces morphologies and matters before, during and after the column experiment were analysed by scanning electron microscopy in conjunction with energy-dispersion spectroscopy (EDS).
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Groundwater Resources and Environment, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, PR China.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Donglei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Haochen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Dongyan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry; D004572:Electrolysis; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D009578:Nitrobenzenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009578:Nitrobenzenes; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D002244:Carbon; D007501:Iron; C036077:nitrobenzene