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Electrochemical degradation of Reactive Blue 19 dye by combining boron doped diamond and reticulated vitreous carbon electrodes

Electrochemical degradation of Reactive Blue 19 dye by combining boron doped diamond and reticulated vitreous carbon electrodes
Electrochemical degradation of Reactive Blue 19 dye by combining boron doped diamond and reticulated vitreous carbon electrodes
Reactive Blue 19 (RB-19) dye has low fixation efficiency, a long half-life and high toxicity. It is easily loss during the cleaning of textiles and can remain in the environment for long time causing serious environmental problems if not removed. This study reports the degradation of RB-19 by: 1) the electrochemical direct degradation with Boron-Doped Diamond (BDD) electrodes and 2) a combined processes using BDD and Reticulated Vitreous Carbon (RVC) electrodes that generates H2O2. The direct degradation uses different current densities and concentrations. High currents densities, longer electrolysis time and low volumetric flow rates, favour RB-19 degradation removing total colour and 100 % TOC at 5 and 60 min respectively. At 41 mA cm-2 current density and 20 dm3 h-1 volumetric flow rate, the energy consumption to degrade 20 mg dm-3 of RB-19 was 279 kWh kg-1. The TOC removal of RB-19 dye combining BDD and RVC at a current density of 41 mA cm-2 was below 72% during 90 min and the energy consumption increased to 612 kWh kg-1. The higher energy consumption obtained during the combined process suggested that the direct degradation process at low volumetric flow rates is more efficient than the combined process.
boron- doped diamond; electrochemical oxidation; filter-press flow reactor; H2O2 electrogeneration; reactive blue 19 dye; reticulated vitreous carbon
3516-3524
Ponce De Leon, Carlos
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Vasconcelos, Vanessa M.
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Rosiwal, Stefan
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Lanza, Marcos R.V.
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Ponce De Leon, Carlos
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Vasconcelos, Vanessa M.
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Rosiwal, Stefan
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Lanza, Marcos R.V.
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Ponce De Leon, Carlos, Vasconcelos, Vanessa M., Rosiwal, Stefan and Lanza, Marcos R.V. (2019) Electrochemical degradation of Reactive Blue 19 dye by combining boron doped diamond and reticulated vitreous carbon electrodes. ChemElectroChem, 6 (13), 3516-3524, [201900563R1]. (doi:10.1002/celc.201900563).

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Reactive Blue 19 (RB-19) dye has low fixation efficiency, a long half-life and high toxicity. It is easily loss during the cleaning of textiles and can remain in the environment for long time causing serious environmental problems if not removed. This study reports the degradation of RB-19 by: 1) the electrochemical direct degradation with Boron-Doped Diamond (BDD) electrodes and 2) a combined processes using BDD and Reticulated Vitreous Carbon (RVC) electrodes that generates H2O2. The direct degradation uses different current densities and concentrations. High currents densities, longer electrolysis time and low volumetric flow rates, favour RB-19 degradation removing total colour and 100 % TOC at 5 and 60 min respectively. At 41 mA cm-2 current density and 20 dm3 h-1 volumetric flow rate, the energy consumption to degrade 20 mg dm-3 of RB-19 was 279 kWh kg-1. The TOC removal of RB-19 dye combining BDD and RVC at a current density of 41 mA cm-2 was below 72% during 90 min and the energy consumption increased to 612 kWh kg-1. The higher energy consumption obtained during the combined process suggested that the direct degradation process at low volumetric flow rates is more efficient than the combined process.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 May 2019
Published date: 1 July 2019
Keywords: boron- doped diamond; electrochemical oxidation; filter-press flow reactor; H2O2 electrogeneration; reactive blue 19 dye; reticulated vitreous carbon

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Local EPrints ID: 431488
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431488
PURE UUID: 3adaf822-dc99-4e1d-bc16-0264cefe1c10
ORCID for Carlos Ponce De Leon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-5913

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Date deposited: 05 Jun 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:54

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Author: Vanessa M. Vasconcelos
Author: Stefan Rosiwal
Author: Marcos R.V. Lanza

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