Title

Designing A Collector Overlay Architecture For Fault Diagnosis In Video Networks

Keywords

Benzo[a]pyrene; Ethanol; Magnesium; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Reduction

Abstract

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a well-known threat to the environment. Substances such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in contaminated soils and sediments can have severe and long-term effects on human and environmental health. There is an urgent need for the development of safe technologies for their effective degradation. Here we present a new technique using ball-milled magnesium powder and ethanol solvent as a convenient electron transfer/proton source for the partial reduction of PAHs under ambient conditions. The rates of degradation were determined while evaluating the influences of acetic acid and type of ball-milled magnesium added to the reaction mixture. The results of these triplicate studies indicate that with the use of acetic acid as an activator and ball-milled magnesium carbon (Mg/C), this reducing system (Mg-EtOH) is able to achieve a 94% conversion of 250 μg/mL of toxic benzo[a]pyrene into a mixture of less toxic and partially hydrogenated polycyclic compounds within 24. h. This methodology can be used as a combined process involving ethanol washing followed by reduction reaction and it can also be considered as an easy handling and efficient alternative process to the catalytic hydrogenation of PAHs. © 2011 Elsevier B.V.

Publication Date

2-15-2012

Publication Title

Computer Communications

Volume

35

Number of Pages

418-430

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2011.11.012

Socpus ID

84856411721 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84856411721

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