Abstract
Nonylphenol ethoxylates are widely used industrial surfactants. Once released into environment compartments, these chemicals undergo degradation and generate more toxic short chain artificial compound nonylphenol (NP). The latter is a known endocrine disrupting compound and persistent micropollutant. In the present study, the performance of NP degradation in UV-induced PS, PS/Fe2+, PS/H2O2, and PS/H2O2/Fe2+ systems was examined. The effect of concentration of oxidant and activators on the efficiency of target compound decomposition was studied. The trials were conducted in ultrapure water and groundwater to assess the influence of matrix composition. The obtained results indicated that NP degradation by all the systems studied followed a pseudo-first-order kinetics. The application of UV-activated PS at lower concentrations of the oxidant improved NP oxidation in both water matrices. The addition of iron activator at a cost-effective concentration showed slight improvement in the studied PS-based systems. The application of UV-induced dual oxidant PS/H2O2 system demonstrated promising results in NP oxidation. In turn, the addition of Fe2+ to the UV/PS/H2O2 system accelerated the target compound oxidation at an optimized dose of iron activator. The radicals scavenging studies indicated that HO• was the predominant radical in all UV-induced PS-based systems. The results of this research could provide significant information for the removal of NP from different water matrices by means of UV-induced persulfate-based oxidation processes.
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The authors would like to thank M.Sc. Maria Martšenko and M.Sc. Svetlana Puustusmaa for their assistance in the experiments.
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The financial support was provided by the Institutional Development Program of TUT for 2016-2022, project 2014-2020.4.01.16-0032, from EU Regional Development Fund and the Estonian Research Council grant PRG776.
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Kaur, B., Kattel, E. & Dulova, N. Insights into nonylphenol degradation by UV-activated persulfate and persulfate/hydrogen peroxide systems in aqueous matrices: a comparative study. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 22499–22510 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08886-y
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