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Metal ion-catalyzed mineralization and biodetoxification studies of Calconcarboxylic acid in aqueous solution: effect of –COOH group

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Pages 1955-1963 | Received 16 Nov 2013, Accepted 12 Aug 2014, Published online: 12 Sep 2014
 

Abstract

Mineralization and biodetoxification studies of Calconcarboxylic acid (CCA), an azo dye, were undertaken by metal ion-catalyzed oxidation processes, viz. Fenton and Fenton-like processes and the effect of presence of –COOH group thereon were established. The metal ions used were Fe2+ and Ag+ and the oxidants used were hydrogen peroxide (HP) and ammonium persulfate (APS). For a given oxidant, Fe2+ is found to be the most suitable catalyst and among the oxidants, APS proves to be most suitable one. As all the systems yield maximum mineralization at pH 1, Fe2+/APS at pH 1 is the most suitable system. It is observed that mineralization is favored by Fe2+/HP process due to the presence of –COOH group in CCA and by Fe2+/APS process in its absence. Removal of –COOH group causes a shift in optimum pH, for Fenton process, to 3 accompanied by a corresponding drop in mineralization from 70.6 to 35.6% and an increase from 73.2 to 91.1% in Fe2+/APS system. Bioassay experiment reveals that the treated solutions are ≥50% biotoxic than the untreated dye, which could be reduced to 22.7 and 26.7% in Fe2+/APS and Ag+/APS systems, respectively, when the –COOH group is removed.

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge the use of facilities acquired through the DAE-BRNS grant (2008/37/49/BRNS/3082, dated 20.03.2009) to MKS.

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