Title
Using Hybrid Coupling Processes for the Treatment of Waste Containing Halosulfuron-Methyl Herbicide
Date Issued
14 June 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Brasilia
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Abstract
This work aims to demonstrate the importance of coupling different degradation processes for the removal of the commercial herbicide Halosulfuron-Methyl (HSM). Using anode oxidation (AO) on boron-doped diamond as the base process; cathodically produced H2O2 (AO/H2O2), UV light (AO/UV), AO/UV/H2O2, electro-Fenton and photoelectron Fenton (PEF) are employed as hybrid processes for HSM degradation. All hybrid processes employed in the study exhibited synergism with AO, and the UV-irradiated processes presented an outstanding performance. In particular, the AO/UV/H2O2 process exhibited 90 % mineralization after 3 h of treatment, whereas the PEF process exhibited a complete removal of HSM after 45 min of treatment. In addition to the noticeable advantages of hybridization, the application of higher current densities is found to accelerate the degradation/mineralization of the compound of interest, although the process tends to be more energy demanding. In such a case, the use of a hybrid treatment process coupled to UV-irradiation allows one to mitigate this constraint while contributing toward obtaining higher mineralization degrees. The degradation/mineralization of more concentrated solutions is, however, found to occur more sluggishly under the treatment mechanisms investigated here, requiring longer times, although the process is noticeably more efficient in photo-irradiated processes, which recorded current efficiencies of above 100 %.
Volume
9
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería ambiental
Ingeniería de procesos
Ciencias de la Tierra, Ciencias ambientales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132326705
Source
ChemElectroChem
ISSN of the container
21960216
Sponsor(s)
The authors do acknowledge the financial support provided by the Brazilian research funding agencies, including the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (grants: #465571/2014‐0, #302874/2017‐8 and #427452/2018‐0), São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP – grants #2013/15000‐6, #2014/50945‐4 and #2017/10118‐0), and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES – Finance Code 001), in support of this research. J. J. L. is grateful to the Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF Project n.0193‐000.714/2016) for the financial support.
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