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Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering >> 2020, Volume 14, Issue 6 doi: 10.1007/s11705-019-1907-z

Efficient degradation of orange II by ZnMn

. School of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Green Processing of Sugar Resources, College of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Guangxi Science University of and Technology, Liuzhou 545006, China.. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Oil-Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China.. Department of Ecosystem Science and Management and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Accepted: 2020-03-11 Available online: 2020-03-11
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Abstract

A ZnMn O catalyst has been synthesized via a sucrose-aided combustion method and characterized by various analytical techniques. It is composed of numerous nanoparticles (15–110 nm) assembled into a porous structure with a specific surface area (SSA) of 19.1 m ·g . Its catalytic activity has been investigated for the degradation of orange II dye using three different systems, i.e., the photocatalysis system with visible light, the chemocatalysis system with bisulfite, and the photo-chemical catalysis system with both visible light and bisulfite. The last system exhibits the maximum degradation efficiency of 90%, much higher than the photocatalysis system (15%) and the chemocatalysis system (67%). The recycling experiments indicate that the ZnMn O catalyst has high stability and reusability and is thus a green and eximious catalyst. Furthermore, the potential degradation mechanisms applicable to the three systems are discussed with relevant theoretical analysis and scavenging experiments for radicals. The active species such as Mn(III), O , h , e , SO and HO are proposed to be responsible for the excellent degradation results in the photo-chemical catalysis system with the ZnMn O catalyst.

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