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Photo-Fenton degradation of methylene blue using hematite-enriched slag under visible light

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This study aims to find a suitable method to transform the amorphous iron oxides obtained from the incineration of combustible waste slag into hematite. The resulting samples were utilized as heterogeneous photocatalysts for the photo-Fenton degradation of methylene blue (MB) aqueous solution. A good correlation was found between the MB degradation and the amount of hematite phase as confirmed by XRD and Mössbauer measurements. The largest rate constant (k) was (4.1 ± 0.08) × 10−2 min−1 for MB decomposition under visible-light for the sample N5-50-800. The results are promising for both low-cost photocatalysts and recycling of combustible waste slags.

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Some of the authors (ASA, KN, KA, SK) express their gratitude for the financial support from Tokyo Human Resources Fund for City Diplomacy, Grant Number H29-1. We are also thankful to Prof. Tetsuya Shishido and Mr Kenji Aihara of Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, for their support in this work.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachi-Oji, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan

    Ahmed S. Ali, Irfan Khan, Bofan Zhang, Kiyoshi Nomura, Kazuhiko Akiyama & Shiro Kubuki

  2. Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Zoltan Homonnay & Erno Kuzmann

  3. Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts, Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK

    Alex Scrimshire & Paul A. Bingham

  4. Division of Materials Chemistry, Ruđer Bosković Institute, Bijenička c. 54, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Stjepko Krehula & Svetozar Musić

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ASA: Conceptualization, Methodology, IK: Writing-Reviewing and Editing, BZ: Methodology, KN: Software, HZ: Writing-Reviewing and Editing, EK: Writing-Orginal draft, AS: Software, PB: Methodology, SK: Visualization, SM: Data curation, KA: Data curation, SK: Supervision.

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Ali, A.S., Khan, I., Zhang, B. et al. Photo-Fenton degradation of methylene blue using hematite-enriched slag under visible light. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 325, 537–549 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07238-x

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