Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater by chemically modified plant wastes as adsorbents: A review

Water near or above its critical point (374 C, 218 atm) is attracting increased attention as a medium for organic chemistry. Most of this new attention is driven by the search for more green or environmentally benign chemical processes. Using near-critical or supercritical water (SCW) instead of organic solvents in chemical processes offers environmental advantages and may lead to pollution prevention. Interest in doing chemistry in SCW is not entirely new, however. There has been much previous research in this area with applications in synthetic fuels production, biomass processing, waste treatment, materials synthesis, and geochemistry. Water near its critical point possesses properties very different from those of ambient liquid water. The dielectric constant is much lower, and the number and persistence of hydrogen bonds are both diminished. As a result, high-temperature water behaves like many organic solvents in that organic compounds enjoy high solubilities in near-critical water and complete miscibility with SCW. Moreover, gases are also miscible in SCW so employing a SCW reaction environment provides an opportunity to conduct chemistry in a single fluid phase that would otherwise occur in a multiphase system under more conventional conditions. The paper discusses the use of supercritical water in the following reactions:more » hydrogenation/dehydrogenation; C-C bond formation; rearrangements; hydration/dehydration; elimination; hydrolysis; partial oxidation; H-D exchange; decomposition; and oxidation.« less

Organic Chemical Reactions in Supercritical Water.

The hydroxyl radical (•OH) is one of the most powerful oxidizing agents, able to react unselectively and instantaneously with the surrounding chemicals, including organic pollutants and inhibitors. The •OH radicals are omnipresent in the environment (natural waters, atmosphere, interstellar space, etc.), including biological systems where •OH has an important role in immunity metabolism. We provide an extensive view on the role of hydroxyl radical in different environmental compartments and in laboratory systems, with the aim of drawing more attention to this emerging issue. Further research on processes related to the hydroxyl radical chemistry in the environmental compartments is highly demanded. A comprehensive understanding of the sources and sinks of •OH radicals including their implications in the natural waters and in the atmosphere is of crucial importance, including the way irradiated chromophoric dissolved organic matter in surface waters yields •OH through the H2O2-independent pathway, and the ...

Environmental Implications of Hydroxyl Radicals ((•)OH).

This review provides updated information on the application of the Fenton process as an advanced oxidation method for the treatment of industrial wastewaters. This technology has been used in recent decades as a chemical oxidation process addressed to meet a variety of objectives including final polishing, reduction of high percentages of organic load in terms of chemical oxygen demand or total organic carbon and removal of recalcitrant and toxic pollutants thus allowing for further conventional biological treatment. The efficiency and flexibility of this technology has been proven with a wide diversity of effluents from chemical and other related industries or activities, including pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, textile, food, cork processing, and landfilling among others.

An overview of the application of Fenton oxidation to industrial wastewaters treatment

Heterogeneous catalytic wet air oxidation of refractory organic pollutants in industrial wastewaters: a review.

Intermediates in wet oxidation of cellulose: identification of hydroxyl radical and characterization of hydrogen peroxide.

A new, strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-sporulating, mesophilic bacterium, designated strain CIN1T (T=type strain) was isolated from an anaerobic digester fed with shea cake rich in tannins and aromatic compounds. Cells of strain CIN1T were rod-shaped, had characteristically pointed ends (1.3-3.0 x 0.5-0.6 microm) and occurred singly, in pairs and sometimes in chains of up to six. The pH range for growth was 6.9-8.5 and the temperature growth range was 15-40 degrees C. Optimum growth occurred with yeast extract and cinnamate at 37 degrees C and a pH of 7.5. The isolate transformed cinnamate by degrading the aliphatic side chain to produce acetate and benzoate rather than by aromatic ring cleavage or demethoxylation. The position of the methoxyl group appears to be important in the degradation of the aliphatic side chain of cinnamate; consequently, 3-methoxycinnamate and 4-methoxycinnamate, but not 2-methoxycinnamate, are transformed to produce acetate and methoxybenzoates, namely 3-methoxybenzoate and 4-methoxybenzoate, respectively. Crotonate is degraded to acetate and butyrate. The G+C content of the DNA is 56 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of strain CIN1T indicated that it was a member of the low-G+C-containing Gram-positive branch with a specific relationship to Sporobacter termitidis (sequence identity of 88%). The phylogenetic results concur with the phenotypic data which reveals that the isolate is a novel bacterium and, based on these findings, strain CIN1T (= DSM 12816T = ATCC 700879T) has been designated Papillibacter cinnamivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.

Papillibacter cinnamivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a cinnamate-transforming bacterium from a shea cake digester

Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) could offer a viable treatment alternative to destroy the organic structure of ion-exchange resins (IER) that are radioactive process wastes and which contain radioactivity. The GC/MS technique was used successfully to identify the low-concentration degradation compounds that are present in the cold liquid effluent after SCWO of polystyrenic IER at 380 °C (25.5 MPa). The study of the behavior of these IER in supercritical water enhances the role of temperature and the role of supercritical water in the degradation process. With the exception of acetic acid, the identified compounds are aromatic. The functional groups are released during the heating time, and they do not interfere in the degradation process. The oxidation involves a complex set of reaction pathways. A mechanism including parallel and competitive reactions is proposed.

Reactivities of Polystyrenic Polymers with Supercritical Water under Nitrogen or Air. Identification and Formation of Degradation Compounds

In this paper, we examine the wet-air oxidation (WAO) of four nuclear-fuel-chelating compounds [diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), nitrilotriacetic a...

Kinetics and Mechanism of Wet-Air Oxidation of Nuclear-Fuel-Chelating Compounds

The aim of this work is to optimize the degradation yield of an activated sludge and to study the reaction mechanism on a cellulose model compound. This optimization is performed with a Simplex design with four parameters: reaction temperature (280- 350 °C), injected air pressure (40-60 MPa), reaction time (10-45 minutes) and COD concentration (0.5-5 g L -1). The better yield obtained on TOC concentration is 82 5% at 330 °C. Over this temperature, the yield substantially decreases. The use of cellulose a s a model compound for activated sludge confirms optimization results and leads to the identification of by-products and free rad ical species participating in the reaction. Two major organic compounds have been detected: 4-oxo pentanoic acid and 3-oxo butanoic acid, and three types of radicals: HO°, CO 2° -and °CH(OH)CH3.

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Maurice Ambrosio

Papers

Intermediates in wet oxidation of cellulose: identification of hydroxyl radical and characterization of hydrogen peroxide.

Papillibacter cinnamivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a cinnamate-transforming bacterium from a shea cake digester

Reactivities of Polystyrenic Polymers with Supercritical Water under Nitrogen or Air. Identification and Formation of Degradation Compounds

Kinetics and Mechanism of Wet-Air Oxidation of Nuclear-Fuel-Chelating Compounds

Optimization of the degradation of sewage sludge by wet air oxidation. Study of the reaction mechanism on a cellulose model compound