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Experimental and computational assessment of 1,4-Dioxane degradation in a photo-Fenton reactive ceramic membrane filtration process

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The present study evaluated a photo-Fenton reactive membrane that achieved enhanced 1,4-Dioxane removal performance. As a common organic solvent and stabilizer, 1,4-Dioxane is widely used in a variety of industrial products and poses negative environmental and health impacts. The membrane was prepared by covalently coating photocatalyst of goethite (α-FeOOH) on a ceramic porous membrane as we reported previously. The effects of UV irradiation, H2O2 and catalyst on the removal efficiency of 1,4-Dioxane in batch reactors were first evaluated for optimized reaction conditions, followed by a systematical investigation of 1,4-Dioxane removal in the photo-Fenton membrane filtration mode. Under optimized conditions, the 1,4-Dioxane removal rate reached up to 16% with combination of 2 mmol/L H2O2 and UV365 irradiation (2000 µW/cm2) when the feed water was filtered by the photo-Fenton reactive membrane at a hydraulic retention time of 6 min. The removal efficiency and apparent quantum yield (AQY) were both enhanced in the filtration compared to the batch mode of the same photo-Fenton reaction. Moreover, the proposed degradation pathways were analyzed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which provided a new insight into the degradation mechanisms of 1,4-Dioxane in photo-Fenton reactions on the functionalized ceramic membrane.

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    Shan Xue & Changqing Liu

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Aqueous Typical Pollutants Control and Water Quality Safeguard, Department of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Shaobin Sun & Hong Yao

  3. John A. Reif, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Shan Xue, Shaobin Sun, Weihua Qing & Wen Zhang

  4. College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences (Ministry of Education), Beijing, 100871, China

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• 1,4-Dioxane was degraded via the photo-Fenton reactive membrane filtration.

• Degradation efficiency and AQY were both enhanced in photocatalytic membrane.

• There was a tradeoff between photocatalytic degradation and membrane permeation flux.

• Degradation pathways of 1,4-Dioxane was revealed by DFT analysis.

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Xue, S., Sun, S., Qing, W. et al. Experimental and computational assessment of 1,4-Dioxane degradation in a photo-Fenton reactive ceramic membrane filtration process. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 15, 95 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-020-1341-y

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