DECONTAMINATION OF NITRATES AND NITRITES IN WASTEWATER BY ZERO-VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLES

    Authors

    K. S. Lin; N. B. Chang;T. D. Chuang

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Nano

    Keywords

    Zero-valent iron nanoparticles; nitrite; nitrate; kinetics; XANES; REDUCTION; KINETICS; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; Physics, Applied

    Abstract

    The chemical reduction of nitrate or nitrite species by zero-valent iron nanoparticle (ZVIN) in aqueous solution and related reaction kinetics or mechanisms using. ne structure characterization were investigated. Experimentally, ZVIN of this study was prepared by borohydride reduction method at room temperature. The morphology of as-synthesized ZVIN shows that the nearly ball and ultra. ne particles ranged of 20-50 nm were observed with FE-SEM analysis. The kinetic model of nitrites or nitrates reductive reaction by ZVIN is proposed as a pseudo. rst-order kinetic equation. The nitrite and nitrate removal efficiencies using ZVIN were found 65-83% and 51-68%, respectively, based on three different initial concentrations. By using XRD patterns, the quantitative relationship between nitrite and Fe(III) or Fe(II) becomes similar to the one between nitrate and Fe( III) in the ZVIN study. The possible reason is linked with a faster nitrite reduction by ZVIN. In fact, the occurrence of the relative faster nitrite reductive reaction suggested that the passivation of the ZVIN have a significant contribution to iron corrosion. The XANES spectra show that the nitrites or nitrates reduce to N(2) while oxidizing the ZVIN to Fe(2)O(3) or Fe(3)O(4) electrochemically. It is also very clear that decontamination of nitrate or nitrite species in groundwater via the in-situ remediation with a ZVIN permeable reactive barrier would be environmentally attractive.

    Journal Title

    Nano

    Volume

    3

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    291

    Last Page

    295

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000263625700016

    ISSN

    1793-2920

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