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Selenate removal by Fe0 coupled with ferrous iron, hydrogen peroxide, sulfidation, and weak magnetic field: A
Peng Fan1, Lina Li2, Yuankui Sun1
1State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, China; International Joint Research Center for Sustainable Urban Water System, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China.
Abstract:
Dosing ferrous ions (ZVI/Fe2+), combining with oxidants (e.g., H2O2) (ZVI/H2O2), sulfidation treatment (S-ZVI), and introducing a weak magnetic field (ZVI/WMF) have been widely used to enhance the performance of zerovalent iron (ZVI) for reductive removal of contaminants. Taking Se(VI) as a probe contaminant, this study systematically compared the performances of different ZVI systems (i.e., ZVI/Fe2+, ZVI/H2O2, S-ZVI, and ZVI/WMF) for contaminant removal. All the four tested methods could greatly improve the performance of ZVI for Se(VI) removal. Se(VI) was removed by S-ZVI at S/Fe molar ratio of 0.05 with a much greater rate constant than other enhanced-ZVI technologies while the maximum amount of Se(VI) removal was obtained in ZVI/Fe2+ system with Fe2+ applied at 0.5 mM among the four tested enhanced-ZVI technologies at initial pH 6.0. In addition, Se(VI) removal by ZVI/Fe2+ was least influenced by initial pH compared to the other tested enhanced-ZVI systems, implying its good adaptability of pH. The application of these tested methods could significantly increase the electron efficiency from ∼0.5% to 4.06-8.72% and Fe2+ application was much more efficient in enhancing the electron efficiency than the other three methods. Finally, the perspective of these enhanced-ZVI technologies was compared in terms of their reactivity, selectivity, chemical cost, and pH adaptability and some suggestions for their possible application were provided.
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