title: Study on enhanced degradation of atrazine by ozonation in the presence of hydroxylamine.
abstract: Degradation of atrazine (ATZ) by ozonation in the presence of hydroxylamine (HA) was experimentally investigated in this study. The results showed approximately 80% of ATZ was degraded by ozonation in the presence of HA, while only 20% was degraded by ozonation alone. The obvious inhibition of the ATZ degradation by tert-butanol suggested the enhanced ATZ degradation by ozone/HA was primarily attributed to OH. The OH yield was determined to be 25.8%. Additionally, the optimum HA dosage for the ATZ degradation was 4μM, when the ozone dosage was 20μM. The effects of pH, bicarbonate and temperature on ATZ degradation by ozone/HA were investigated in details. Most importantly, the enhanced ATZ degradation by ozonation in the presence of HA was still observed in real water especially at acidic pHs. Furthermore, the potential mechanism of OH formation during the reaction of ozone with HA was proposed herein. Nine products were identified by UPLC/Q-TOF-MS system. The ATZ degradation involved dealkylation, dechlorination-hydroxylation and olefination. The evolutions of the concentrations of three available transformation products including deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine and deethyldeisopropylatrazine in ozone/HA were evaluated and compared with that in ozonation alone.
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Jingxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China. Electronic address: liji99@foxmail.com.
authors.forename: Ji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Wenyi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China. Electronic address: majun@hit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Jie
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authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Tingting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Water Resource Application and Environmental Pollution Control, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Jiayin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
authors.forename: Pingxin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu