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Heterogeneous Fenton Degradation of Rhodamine B in Aqueous Solution Using Fe-Loaded Mesoporous MCM-41 as Catalyst

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In this study, mesoporous Fe/MCM-41 was prepared and employed as a heterogeneous Fenton catalyst for the oxidative degradation of dye rhodamine B (RhB) in aqueous solution. Structural and morphological characterizations were performed using XRD, BET, FTIR, and SEM-EDX techniques. Fe/MCM-41 exhibits high catalytic activity for degradation of RhB in the Fenton-like system consisting of solid catalyst and H2O2. ·OH radicals were demonstrated to be the dominant active species by using tert-butanol as a probe compound. It was suggested that dye adsorption and ·OH generation are independent of each other during the heterogeneous Fenton process at the studied initial dye and H2O2 concentrations. The intermediates of RhB degradation were identified by LC-MS technique in this study. It can be inferred that the destructions of the conjugated structure and N-de-ethylation happen simultaneously during the heterogeneous Fenton process.

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The work was supported by Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province (Public Welfare Project, 2017GSF17111), Foundation of State Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering (Grant No.2017-K31) and Qingdao People’s Livelihood Science and Technology Project (16-6-2-54-nsh).

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    Dongyan Xu, Xiaowei Sun, Xi Zhao, Lixin Huang, Yi Qian & Xumei Tao

  2. State Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, People’s Republic of China

    Qingjie Guo

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Xu, D., Sun, X., Zhao, X. et al. Heterogeneous Fenton Degradation of Rhodamine B in Aqueous Solution Using Fe-Loaded Mesoporous MCM-41 as Catalyst. Water Air Soil Pollut 229, 317 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-018-3932-9

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