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Removal of polyvinylamine sulfonate anthrapyridone dye by application of heterogeneous electro-Fenton process

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Diversity and rapidly multiplication of the pollutants incite as to improve the conventional treatments wastewater methods. One of the bottlenecks often faced is the presence into wastewater of organic pollutants with complex structures that requests the design of efficient processes. Thus, this work investigates the removal of polyvinylamine sulfonate anthrapyridone (PSA) dye which complex structure makes difficult its degradation by conventional technologies. For that, a heterogeneous oxidative process using pyrite as sustainable catalyst was designed. Initially, the performance of the system BBD-carbon felt as anode and cathode, respectively for the production of H2O2 was determined in comparison with system boron-doped diamond nickel foam. The carbon felt electrode provided the highest oxidant production, and it was selected for the treatment of the polymeric dye. Several oxidative processes were evaluated, and the best degradation levels were obtained by application of electro-Fenton-pyrite process. In addition, it was determined that dye removal followed a kinetic model of pseudo-first-order achieving the highest efficiency by operation at optimum dosage of pyrite 2 g/L and 200 mA of current intensity. Depending on the optimal experimental conditions, these values lead to a nearly complete mineralization (total organic carbon removal of 95%) after 6 h. Furthermore, the reusability of pyrite was evaluated, by removal of PSA in four cycles.

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Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO), Xunta de Galicia, and ERDF Funds under projects CTM2014-52471-R and GRC 2013/003 have financially supported this research.

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  1. BIOSUV Group, University of Vigo, MTI Building, Campus Universitario de Vigo, 36310, Vigo, Spain

    Bakhta Bouzayani, Jessica Meijide, Marta Pazos & Maria Angeles Sanroman

  2. Laboratory of the Physico-Chemistry of Solid States, University of Sfax, 3000, Sfax, Tunisia

    Bakhta Bouzayani & Sourour Chaâbane Elaoud

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Bouzayani, B., Meijide, J., Pazos, M. et al. Removal of polyvinylamine sulfonate anthrapyridone dye by application of heterogeneous electro-Fenton process. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 18309–18319 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9468-5

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