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Assessment of the Use of NaClO as an Alternative to H2O2 in the Oxidant-Titanium Ore-Simulated Solar Light System for Thiabendazole Degradation

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The use of the magnetic fraction (MF) of a low-grade titanium ore (TO) and two oxidants (H2O2 and NaClO), testing each one separately, were compared in photo-Fenton like systems to degrade thiabendazole (TBZ) as a model micropollutant. As far as the author’s knowledge goes, this work presents for the first time the assessment of NaClO as an alternative to H2O2 in heterogeneous systems, where the Fenton-type photocatalyst is a natural mineral; TO has a Mexican origin and its magnetic fraction is mainly composed of Ilmenite (47.8% w/w FeTiO3). The experiments were carried out at bench scale in a solar simulator, using a batch raceway pond reactor. Oxidant and MF concentrations were optimized by a composite experimental design, which allowed to achieve 97% TBZ degradation at 15 and 30 min for NaClO and H2O2 systems, respectively, when the initial concentration of TBZ was 37 µM. Pointing out that both pseudo-first order rate constants (\(k^{\prime}\)), \(k_{NaClO}^{^{\prime}}\) = 0.226 min−1 and \(k_{{H_{2} O_{2} }}^{^{\prime}}\) = 0.065 min−1, are in the order of homogeneous photo-Fenton applied to degrade TBZ; however, the time to achieve the same level of TBZ degradation is halved when NaClO is used instead of H2O2, thus the capacity of treatment plants can be increased. Furthermore, better results of mineralization (54%), DQO (76%), DBO5 (44%) and acute toxicity (74%) removal were observed when NaClO was used as an oxidant compared to H2O2, whose values were 42, 67, 38 and 58% for the parameters aforementioned. These positive results demonstrate the feasibility of the use of NaClO as an alternative oxidant to H2O2 in the heterogeneous photo Fenton like process.

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This research was supported by UNAM, through the PAPIIT, project IT100616. Melisa Portilla-Sangabriel would like to acknowledge CONACYT for her Master scholarship. José Alberto Macías Vargas is grateful for his pre-doctoral CONACYT Scholarship. Authors gratefully acknowledge the support of XRD and XRF Laboratory of the Geology Institute at UNAM, member of National Laboratory of Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Mexico, in the materials characterization, especially to Dr. T. Pi-Puig and Quim. Rufino Lozano. Authors are also grateful to MSc. Leticia García Montes de Oca for the HPLC analysis, to Biol. Germán Álvarez Lozano and MSc. Jorge Luis Romero Hernández for their support on Scattering Electron Microscopy.

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Portilla-Sangabriel, M., Arzate, S., Macías-Vargas, JA. et al. Assessment of the Use of NaClO as an Alternative to H2O2 in the Oxidant-Titanium Ore-Simulated Solar Light System for Thiabendazole Degradation. Top Catal 64, 181–193 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-020-01388-8

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