Title

Reduction Of Polyhalogenated Methanes By Surface-Bound Fe(Ii) In Aqueous Suspensions Of Iron Oxides

Abstract

Uptake of ferrous iron from aqueous solution by iron oxides results in the formation of a variety of reactive surface species capable of reducing polyhalogenated methanes (PHMs). Pseudo-first-order reaction rate constants, kobs, of PHMs increased in the order CHBrCl2 < CHBr2Cl < CHBr3 < CCl4 < CFBr3 < CBrCl3 < CBr2Cl2. The kobs values increased with the exposure time, teq, of Fe(II) to suspended iron oxides which was attributed to the rearrangement of initially sorbed Fe(II) species to more reactive surface species with time. At pH 7.2, the kobs values of PHMs also increased with the concentration of surface-bound ferrous iron, Fe(II)sorb, particularly when Fe(II)tot was increased to concentrations where surface precipitation becomes likely. At fixed total Fe(II) concentrations, kobs values increased exponentially with pH. The highest reactivities were associated with pH conditions where surface precipitation of Fe(II) is expected. Fe(II)sorb and pH, however, had opposite effects on the product formation of PHMs. At pH 7.2, the formation of formate from CX4 (X = Cl, Br) increased with Fe(II)sorb, whereas increasing pH favored the formation of CHX3. The ratio of halogenated products and formate formed is indicative of the relative importance of initial one- or two-electron-transfer processes, respectively, and was found to depend on the type of iron oxide mineral also. Our data form a basis to assess the importance of chemical reactions in natural attenuation processes of PHMs in environmental systems under iron-reducing conditions.

Publication Date

4-15-2002

Publication Title

Environmental Science and Technology

Volume

36

Issue

8

Number of Pages

1734-1741

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1021/es011191o

Socpus ID

0037089028 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0037089028

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