Membrane-Confined Iron Oxychloride Nanocatalysts for Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Fenton Water Treatment

Zhang, Shuo; Hedtke, Tayler; Zhu, Qianhong; Sun, Meng; Weon, Seunghyun; Zhao, Yumeng; Stavitski, Eli; Elimelech, Menachem; Kim, Jae-Hong

doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c01391

Membrane-Confined Iron Oxychloride Nanocatalysts for Highly Efficient Heterogeneous Fenton Water Treatment

Journal Article · Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Environmental Science and Technology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01391· OSTI ID:1812495

^[1]; Hedtke, Tayler ^[1]; Zhu, Qianhong ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[2]; Zhao, Yumeng ^[3]; Stavitski, Eli ^[4]; ^[1]; ^[1]

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Korea Univ., Seoul, (Korea, Republic of)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)

Heterogeneous advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) allow for the destruction of aqueous organic pollutants via oxidation by hydroxyl radicals (^•OH). However, practical treatment scenarios suffer from the low availability of short-lived ^•OH in aqueous bulk, due to both mass transfer limitations and quenching by water constituents, such as natural organic matter (NOM). In this work, we overcome these challenges by loading iron oxychloride catalysts within the pores of a ceramic ultrafiltration membrane, resulting in an internal heterogeneous Fenton reaction that can degrade organics in complex water matrices with pH up to 6.2. With ^•OH confined inside the nanopores (~ 20 nm), this membrane reactor completely removed various organic pollutants with water fluxes of up to 100 L m^–2 h^–1 (equivalent to a retention time of 10 s). This membrane, with a pore size that excludes NOM (>300 kDa), selectively exposed smaller organics to •OH within the pores under confinement and showed excellent resiliency to representative water matrices (simulated surface water and sand filtration effluent samples). Moreover, the membrane exhibited sustained AOPs (>24 h) and could be regenerated for multiple cycles. Our results suggest the feasibility of exploiting ultrafiltration membrane-based AOP platforms for organic pollutant degradation in complex water scenarios.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1812495

Report Number(s):: BNL--221931-2021-JAAM

Journal Information:: Environmental Science and Technology, Journal Name: Environmental Science and Technology Journal Issue: 13 Vol. 55; ISSN 0013-936X

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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