title: Fenton-like oxidation of 2,4-DCP in aqueous solution using iron-based nanoparticles as the heterogeneous catalyst.
abstract: In this report, various iron-based nanoparticles (nZVI, n-Ni/Fe, n-Pd/Fe) were used for both heterogeneous Fenton oxidation of 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) and reductive dechlorination of 2,4-DCP in order to understand their roles in the Fenton oxidation and the reductive degradation of 2,4-DCP. The dechlorination efficiency of 2,4-DCP using nZVI, n-Ni/Fe, n-Fe/Pd and Fe(2)(+) was 6.48%, 6.80%, 15.95%, 5.02%, while Fenton oxidation efficiency of 2,4-DCP was 57.87%, 34.23%, 27.94%, 19.61% after 180 min, respectively. The new findings included a higher dechlorination using n-Fe/Pd due to Pd effective catalysis and the effective heterogeneous Fenton oxidation using nZVI depending on reductive dechlorination and heterogeneous Fenton oxidation occurs simultaneously. However, nZVI as the potential catalyst for heterogeneous Fenton was observed, and SEM, EDS and XRD demonstrate that change on the nZVI surface occurred due to the Fe(2+) leaching, and Total Organic Carbon (TOC) (30.71%) shows that 2,4-DCP was degraded. Furthermore, the experiment indicates that the pH values and concentration of 2,4-DCP significantly impacted on the heterogeneous Fenton oxidation of 2,4-DCP and the data fits well with the pseudo first-order kinetic model, which was a diffusion-controlled reaction. Finally, a possible mechanism for degradation of 2,4-DCP was proposed.
authors.affiliation: School of Environment Science and Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, Fujian Province, China.
authors.forename: Renchao
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Environment Science and Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, Fujian Province, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Environment Science and Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, Fujian Province, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: School of Environment Science and Engineering, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, Fujian Province, China; Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia; Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environments, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia. Electronic address: Zuliang.chen@unisa.edu.au.
authors.forename: Zuliang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia; Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environments, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia.
authors.forename: Mallavarapu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Megharaj
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia; Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of Environments, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia.
authors.forename: Ravendra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Naidu
keywords: 2,4-DCP; Heterogeneous Fenton oxidation; Nanocatalyst; nZVI