Optimization of sonochemical degradation of tetracycline in aqueous solution using sono-activated persulfate process

Journal of Environmental Health Science Engineering

Mahmood Alimohammadi¹  Ramin Nabizadeh²  Kamyar Yaghmaeian⁴  Amir Hossein Mahvi⁴  Simin Nasseri³  Gholam Hossein Safari¹ 

[1] Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Center for Water Quality Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Center for Solid Waste Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

关键词: Optimization;    Central composite design;    Response surface methodology;    Persulfate;    Tetracycline degradation;   

Others  :  1230784
DOI  :  10.1186/s40201-015-0234-7

 received in 2015-05-30, accepted in 2015-10-19,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

In this study, a central composite design (CCD) was used for modeling and optimizing the operation parameters such as pH, initial tetracycline and persulfate concentration and reaction time on the tetracycline degradation using sono-activated persulfate process. The effect of temperature, degradation kinetics and mineralization, were also investigated.

Results

The results from CCD indicated that a quadratic model was appropriate to fit the experimental data (p < 0.0001) and maximum degradation of 95.01 % was predicted at pH = 10, persulfate concentration = 4 mM, initial tetracycline concentration = 30.05 mg/L, and reaction time = 119.99 min. Analysis of response surface plots revealed a significant positive effect of pH, persulfate concentration and reaction time, a negative effect of tetracycline concentration. The degradation process followed the pseudo-first-order kinetic. The activation energy value of 32.01 kJ/mol was obtained for US/S ₂ O ₈^2-process. Under the optimum condition, the removal efficiency of COD and TOC reached to 72.8 % and 59.7 %, respectively. The changes of UV–Vis spectra during the process was investigated. The possible degradation pathway of tetracycline based on loses of N-methyl, hydroxyl, and amino groups was proposed.

Conclusions

This study indicated that sono-activated persulfate process was found to be a promising method for the degradation of tetracycline.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Safari et al.

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