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Efficient degradation of phenol using natural clay as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst

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A natural containing Fe-clay (NRC) was used for the Fenton-like oxidation of phenol. This new catalyst was very efficient in phenol elimination in aqueous medium under mild experimental conditions (20 °C, atmospheric pressure and low concentration of hydrogen peroxide). The influence of different parameters like calcination's temperature, particle size, initial phenol and H2O2 concentrations were examined considering both phenol conversion and total organic carbon (TOC) removal. NRC was characterized by several complementary methods including chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Mössbauer spectroscopy, thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA), temperature programmed reduction (TPR) and BET. The experimental results showed that 100 % phenol conversion and 70 % TOC removal can be achieved using sieved and calcined NRC (d < 50 μm/450 °C). Catalytic activity of NRC was mainly attributed to the amount of iron oxide species (12.15 wt.%) present naturally in the clay.

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UCEIV participates in the Institut de Recherche en ENvironnement Industriel (IRENI) which is financed by the Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque, the Région Nord Pas-de-Calais, the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, the CNRS and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The authors are grateful to PHC Maghreb n°27959PD for financial support and to the scientific partnership between the university Badji Mokhtar Annaba (Algeria) and the University of Littoral Côte d'Opale Dunkerque (France) for the financial support of L. Djeffal's PhD thesis.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Ingénierie Des Surfaces Université Badji-Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria

    Lemya Djeffal & Sihem Abderrahmane

  2. Univ Lille Nord de France, 59000, Lille, France

    Lemya Djeffal, Marc Fourmentin, Stéphane Siffert & Sophie Fourmentin

  3. ULCO, UCEiV EA4492, 59140, Dunkerque, France

    Lemya Djeffal, Stéphane Siffert & Sophie Fourmentin

  4. Laboratoire «Eau, Energie et Environnement» (LR3E), ENIS, Université de Sfax, Tunisia

    Mourad Benzina

  5. ULCO, LPCA EA 4493, 59140, Dunkerque, France

    Marc Fourmentin

  6. UCEIV-145, Avenue Maurice Schumann, 59140, Dunkerque, France

    Sophie Fourmentin

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Djeffal, L., Abderrahmane, S., Benzina, M. et al. Efficient degradation of phenol using natural clay as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 3331–3338 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-2278-5

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