Antituberculosis drug isoniazid degraded by electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton processes using a boron-doped diamond anode and a carbon-PTFE air-diffusion cathode
Solutions with 0.65 mM of the antituberculosis drug isoniazid (INH) in 0.050 M Na2SO4 at pH 3.0 were treated by electro-Fenton (EF) and UVA photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) processes using a cell with a BDD anode and a carbon-PTFE air-diffusion cathode. The influence of current density on degradation, mine...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/147598 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/147598 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Depuració d'aigües residuals Purification of sewage |
| Sumario: | Solutions with 0.65 mM of the antituberculosis drug isoniazid (INH) in 0.050 M Na2SO4 at pH 3.0 were treated by electro-Fenton (EF) and UVA photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) processes using a cell with a BDD anode and a carbon-PTFE air-diffusion cathode. The influence of current density on degradation, mineralization rate, and current efficiency has been thoroughly evaluated in EF. The effect of the metallic catalyst (Fe2+ or Fe3+) and the formation of products like short-chain linear aliphatic carboxylic acids were assessed in PEF. Two consecutive pseudo-first-order kinetic regions were found using Fe2+ as catalyst. In the first region, at short time, the drug was rapidly oxidized by ●OH, whereas in the second region, at longer time, a resulting Fe(III)-INH complex was much more slowly removed by oxidants. INH disappeared completely at 300 min by EF, attaining 88 and 94% mineralization at 66.6 and 100 mA cm-2, respectively. Isonicotinamide and its hydroxylated derivative were identified as aromatic products of INH by GC-MS and oxalic, oxamic, and formic acids were quantified by ion-exclusion HPLC. The PEF treatment of a real wastewater polluted with the drug led to slower INH and TOC abatements because of the parallel destruction of its natural organic matter content. |
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