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Degradation of Rhodamine B by the α-MnO2/Peroxymonosulfate System

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Rhodamine B (RhB) is one of synthetic dyes with good stability. Treatment of wastewater containing synthetic dyes has attracted much attention. Heterogeneous activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) has been found to be a promising wastewater treatment technology through the activation with metal oxides for the generation of sulfate radicals. In this study, α-MnO2 was prepared by a simple hydrothermal method and used as the catalyst to activate PMS. The degradation of RhB was studied by the α-MnO2/PMS system. It was found that the prepared α-MnO2 exhibited high catalytic activity on the activation of PMS for the degradation of RhB. The degradation of RhB could be well described by the first-order kinetic model. Influences of PMS concentration and α-MnO2 dose on the degradation of RhB were examined. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) was determined to evaluate the mineralization capability of the α-MnO2/PMS system. The stability of α-MnO2 was also investigated through reusability experiments. Quenching tests of radicals were applied to differentiate the contribution of major reactive species for the degradation of RhB by the α-MnO2/PMS system.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41171250), the project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 13230503200) and the Research Foundation of Shanghai Institute of Technology (YJ2013-16).

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    Chaonan Liu, Dongyu Pan, Meifang Hou, Qi Zhou & Jian Zhou

  2. Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

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Liu, C., Pan, D., Tang, X. et al. Degradation of Rhodamine B by the α-MnO2/Peroxymonosulfate System. Water Air Soil Pollut 227, 92 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-016-2782-6

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