Persulfate enhanced removal of bisphenol A by copper oxide/reduced graphene oxide foam: Influencing factors, mechanism and degradation pathway

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Chemosphere

Volume

340

PubMed ID

37574092

Publisher

Elsevier

School

School of Engineering

RAS ID

61999

Funders

The Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology / National Natural Science Foundation of China

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Zhou, Q., Luo, L., Xia, L., Cha, C., Jiang, F., Wang, H., . . . Shu, L. (2023). Persulfate enhanced removal of bisphenol A by copper oxide/reduced graphene oxide foam: Influencing factors, mechanism and degradation pathway. Chemosphere, 340, article 139786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139786

Abstract

The CuO/reduced graphene oxide foam (CuO/RGF) with excellent recyclability was prepared via hydrothermal method followed by freeze drying treatment for bisphenol A (BPA) removal via activating peroxydisulfate (PDS). SEM, XRD, XPS, FT-IR, BET, and TG techniques were used to investigate the structure and property of CuO/RGF. The effect of degradation conditions (pH, PDS amount, Cl−, HCO3−, HA and FA) on BPA removal by CuO/RGF were investigated. The result presented that CuO nanosheet was inserted into the RGF carrier with three-dimensional structure. The degradation rate constant of BPA over CuO/RGF (0.00917 min−1) was 1.24 and 6.46 times higher than those of BPA over CuO (0.00714 min−1) and RGF (0.00142 min−1). More importantly, the pore structure of RGF can successfully limit the release of Cu (II) compared to pure CuO. According to quenching test as well as electron spin resonance (EPR) spectra, BPA degradation was triggered by 1O2, OH and SO4-, which was the combination of nonradical (1O2) and radical activation of PDS (OH and SO4-). The possible degradation route of BPA was proposed based on intermediates obtained by combining solid phase extraction pretreatment technique with high performance liquid-mass spectrometry. After assessing the viability of MCF-7 cells, we can see that the estrogenic activities of treated solution reduced without producing stronger endocrine disruptors.

DOI

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139786

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