Issue 25, 2018, Issue in Progress

A reactive electrochemical filter system with an excellent penetration flux porous Ti/SnO2–Sb filter for efficient contaminant removal from water

Abstract

Tubular porous Ti/SnO2–Sb filters with excellent penetration flux (∼61.94 m3 m−2 h−1 bar−1) and electrochemical activity were prepared by a sol–gel method using low-cost porous titanium filters as the substrates. The porous Ti/SnO2–Sb filters were used as anodic reactive electrochemical membranes to develop reactive electrochemical filter systems, by combining membrane filtration technology with the electrooxidation process, for water treatment. A convection-enhanced rate constant of 4.35 × 10−4 m s−1 was achieved for Fe(CN)64− oxidation, which approached the kinetic limit and is the highest reported in an electrochemical system. The electrooxidative performance of the reactive electrochemical filter system was evaluated with 50 mg L−1 rhodamine B (RhB). The results showed that the reactive electrochemical filter system in flow-through mode resulted in an 8.6-fold enhancement in RhB oxidation as compared to those in flow-by mode under the same experimental conditions. A normalized rate constant of 5.76 × 10−4 m s−1 for RhB oxidation was observed at an anode potential of 3.04 V vs. SCE, which is much higher than that observed in a reactive electrochemical filter system with carbon nanotubes and/or Ti4O7 (1.7 × 10−5–1.4 × 10−4 m s−1). The electrical energy per order degradation (EE/O) for RhB was as low as 0.28 kW h m−3 in flow-through mode, with a relatively short residence time of 9.8 min. The overall mineralization current efficiency (MCE) was calculated to be 83.6% with ∼99% RhB removal and ∼51% TOC removal. These results illustrate that this reactive electrochemical filter system is expected to be a promising method for water treatment.

Graphical abstract: A reactive electrochemical filter system with an excellent penetration flux porous Ti/SnO2–Sb filter for efficient contaminant removal from water

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Jan 2018
Accepted
26 Mar 2018
First published
16 Apr 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 13933-13944

A reactive electrochemical filter system with an excellent penetration flux porous Ti/SnO2–Sb filter for efficient contaminant removal from water

K. Yang, H. Lin, S. Liang, R. Xie, S. Lv, J. Niu, J. Chen and Y. Hu, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 13933 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA00603B

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