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Sci Total Environ. 2019 Sep 10;682:629-638. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.184. Epub 2019 May 17.

Photochemical oxidation of PPCPs using a combination of solar irradiation and free available chlorine.

The Science of the total environment

Shuangshuang Cheng, Xinran Zhang, Weihua Song, Yanheng Pan, Dimitra Lambropoulou, Yu Zhong, Ye Du, Jianxin Nie, Xin Yang

Affiliations

  1. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
  2. Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai 200080, China.
  3. Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of ?hessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
  4. Key Laboratory of Microorganism Application and Risk Control of Shenzhen, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China.
  5. Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
  6. School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 31129545 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.184

Abstract

The degradation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) by using solar photolysis in the presence of free available chlorine (FAC) was investigated in simulated drinking water. The combination of free available chlorine and sunlight irradiation dramatically accelerated the degradation of all the contaminants tested through the generation of hydroxyl radicals, reactive chlorine species (RCS) and ozone. Contaminants containing electron-donating moieties degraded quickly and were preferentially degraded by RCS and/or HO oxidation. Primidone, ibuprofen and atrazine, which contain electron-withdrawing moieties, were mainly degraded by HO. Trace amounts of O

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Keywords: Advanced oxidation; Chlorine photolysis; Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs); Solar/free available chlorine; Water treatment

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