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A Mechanistic Understanding of Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition by Vanadium Minerals for Diethyl Phthalate Degradation Guodong Fang, Yamei Deng, Min Huang, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Cun Liu, and Dong-Mei Zhou Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05303 • Publication Date (Web): 29 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 29, 2018
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A Mechanistic Understanding of Hydrogen Peroxide
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Decomposition by Vanadium Minerals for Diethyl Phthalate
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Degradation
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Guodong Fanga, Yamei Denga, Min Huanga, Dionysios D. Dionysioub, Cun Liua, *,
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Dongmei Zhoua,*
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Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China
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Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Chemical and
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Environmental Engineering (ChEE), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-
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Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 25 86881180; fax: +86 25 86881180.
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E-mail address:
[email protected] (C. Liu)
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[email protected] (D.M. Zhou).
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Abstract
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The interaction of naturally occurring minerals with H2O2 affects the remediation
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efficiency of polluted sites in in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) treatments. However,
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interactions between vanadium (V) minerals and H2O2 have rarely been explored. In this
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study, H2O2 decomposition by various vanadium-containing minerals including V(III),
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V(IV) and V(V) oxides was examined and the mechanism of hydroxyl radicals (•OH)
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generation for contaminant degradation was studied. Vanadium minerals were found to
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catalyze H2O2 decomposition efficiently to produce •OH for diethyl phthalate (DEP)
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degradation in both aqueous solutions with a wide pH range and in soil slurry. Electron
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paramagnetic resonance (EPR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray
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diffraction (XRD) analyses and free radical quenching studies suggested that •OH was
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produced via single electron transfer from V(III)/V(IV) to H2O2 followed a Fenton-like
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pathway on the surface of V2O3 and VO2 particles, while the oxygen vacancy (OV) was
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mainly responsible for •OH formation on the surface of V2O5 particles. This study
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provides a new insight into the mechanism of interactions between vanadium minerals
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and H2O2 during H2O2-based ISCO.
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Introduction
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Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-based in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) has been
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frequently used for the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.1-4 In this
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practice, when H2O2 solution is directly injected to soil, it undergoes decomposition by
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natural occurring minerals to produce hydroxyl radical (•OH), a strong reactive species
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and capable of degrading a variety of pollutants.5-8 Consequently, minerals-based Fenton-
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like reactions are fundamental processes of ISCO and have been studied extensively; 9-13
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such reactions can overcome some problems of homogenous Fenton reactions in the
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degradation of contaminants. 14-17 The kinetics and reaction mechanisms of some Fe and
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Mn-containing minerals, such as goethite, hematite, ferrihydrite, and iron-containing
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montmorillonite, to catalyze H2O2 decomposition have been well established.10 However,
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the decomposition of H2O2 by other soil abundant metal oxides, such as vanadium
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minerals, are rarely explored.
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As an important transition metal, vanadium (V) is a ubiquitous element in soil, with
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concentrations ranging from 0 to 400 mg/kg worldwide.18, 19 Increasing industrial demand
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for V has led to a rapid increase in V concentration in soil due to leaching from sources
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such as petroleum coke and emissions from fossil fuel combustion.20 ,21 V(IV) and V(V)
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are the dominant V species present in soil and most biological systems, and can be
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converted into V(III) under a reducing environment. 22, 23 Owing to these multiple
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oxidation states, V is widely used as a homogeneous and heterogeneous (supported)
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catalyst for the oxidation of alkanes and allylic alcohols, and oxidative bromination or
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sulfoxidation of organic compounds in the presence of alkyl hydroperoxides, H2O2, or
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O2.24–26 However, these reactions were conducted homogeneously in acetonitrile solution,
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while the catalytic decomposition of H2O2 by V minerals for contaminant degradation has
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not been reported so far. Furthermore, similar to the cycles of Fe(II)/Fe(III) (0.77 V) in
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the Fe-mineral/H2O2 system,10 the cycles of V(IV)/V(V) by H2O2 would be
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thermodynamic feasible due to their similar reduction potential (0.99 V).
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Therefore, this study aimed to (i) explore the underlying mechanism of H2O2
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decomposition by V minerals, and (ii) elucidate the pathways of •OH formation for
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contaminant degradation in the V/ H2O2 system. Diethyl phthalate (DEP) was chosen as a
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model pollutant because it is a typical phthalic acid ester (PAE) which is in the priority
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pollutant list of US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and is frequently
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detected in soil and water.27 V2O3, VO2, and V2O5 particles were selected as model V
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minerals for elucidating the mechanism of the V-based Fenton-like process instead of
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naturally occurring V minerals because the latter, such as vanadinite, bravoite, and
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davidite, usually contain other transition metals, making it difficult to distinguish the role
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of V in H2O2 decomposition.28 Density functional theory (DFT) calculations and electron
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paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analysis were used to determine the detailed mechanism
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of DEP degradation and •OH formation in these processes.
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Materials and Methods
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Materials Chemicals used in this study and V mineral characterizations and related
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descriptions are presented in the Supporting Information (SI, Text S1). V mineral was
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characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS),
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and EPR (Text S2).
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Experimental design All degradation experiments were carried out in the dark using a
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250-mL brown flask sealed with a plug and shielded by aluminum foil at 25 °C on an
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orbital shaker (120 rpm). The reaction solution pH was adjusted to desired values using
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concentrated NaOH and H2SO4 without buffer. The pH was monitored during the
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reaction, and adjusted to the initial pH when changes of more than 0.1 pH unit by an
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automatic pH control system used in our previous study.29 Briefly, the system consisted
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of automatic pH control equipment (CD-10, China), a peristaltic pump (HL-2, China),
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and a pH electrode (E201-C, China), NaOH or H2SO4 was automatically added when pH
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changed. All experiments were performed in triplicate to obtain average values with
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standard deviation.
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DEP degradation in aqueous solutions: Different amounts of V-mineral particles were
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added into a reaction solution (147 mL) containing DEP at pH 5.0. After mixing
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thoroughly, H2O2 solution (3 mL, 100 mM) was added to initiate the reaction. The final
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concentrations of DEP and H2O2 were 25 mg/L and 2.0 mM, respectively. Control
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experiments were also carried out using only V mineral particles or H2O2 under the
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identical conditions. Periodically, the reaction suspensions were filtered through a 0.22-
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µm PTFE membrane after adding quencher (ethanol) for HPLC analysis (Agilent 1200,
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USA). To determine DEP degradation intermediates, the reaction suspension was
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extracted with dichloromethane, derivatized with N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)
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trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA)/trimethyl -chlorosilane (TMCS), and then analyzed by GC-
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MS (GC Varian CP3800/MS Saturn2200, USA). The H2O2 concentration was analyzed
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spectrophotometrically using the titanium sulfate method .12 V mineral particles were
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collected after reaction by freeze-drying and then analyzed using XRD, XPS, and EPR.
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DEP degradation in the soil slurry: To test the possibility that V mineral decomposed
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H2O2 for contaminant degradation in the realistic soil environment, we examined the
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effect of soil particles on DEP degradation in a heterogeneous soil-V2O3/H2O2 system.
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The properties of soil used in these experiments are described in the SI. To eliminate the
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effects of organic matter on H2O2 and •OH consumption, soil particles were first treated
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with H2O2 (30%) to remove organic matter.30 Environmentally relevant concentrations
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for DEP (60 mg/L), H2O2 (5.0 mM) and V2O3 (0.2 g/L) were chose in current study
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according to the concentration ranges that were commonly found in the actual
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contaminated soils and regular H2O2-based ISCO practices as reported in the previous
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studies.18, 31, 32 Soil particle loadings were 100, 200 and 500 g/L to examine the various
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soil to water ratios.
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EPR experiments: Hydroxyl radical formation in the V/H2O2 suspension was determined
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using the EPR method coupled with 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrrolidine N-oxide (DMPO) as a
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spin-trapping agent. Briefly, the reaction suspension (V/H2O2) containing DMPO (0.1 M)
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was added to a quartz tube and determined by EPR (EMX 10/12, Bruker, Germany). EPR
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experiments were performed at room temperature, and parameters of EPR analysis for
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both aqueous and solid free radicals as well other analysis are presented in Text S3. The
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other analysis methods and DFT calculations used in this study are presented in Text S4.
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Catalytic decomposition of H2O2 by V2O3 for DEP degradation
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Kinetics of DEP degradation in the V2O3/H2O2 system DEP degradation in the V2O3/
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H2O2 system as a function of H2O2 concentration was examined. Figure 1a shows that
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54.8% of DEP (25 mg/L) was degraded by 1.0 mM H2O2 in the presence of 0.1 g/L V2O3
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at pH 5.0 within 240 min, while a negligible amount of DEP was degraded with H2O2 or
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V2O3 alone. By doubling H2O2 concentration to 2.0 mM, the DEP degradation efficiency
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increased to 64.0%, but decreased to 47.0% when the H2O2 concentration was further
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increased to 10 mM. The pseudo-first-order rate constants (kobs) of DEP degradation
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within 60 min were 0.0126 min–1 and 0.0117 min–1 for 1.0 mM and 2.0 mM H2O2,
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respectively, but decreased gradually to 0.0084 min–1 and 0.0054 min–1 when further
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increasing the H2O2 concentration to 5.0 and 10 mM (Figure S1a).
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Moreover, DEP was mainly degraded within 120 min, with 62.1% and 58.2% DEP
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degradation observed with 2.0 and 5.0 mM H2O2, respectively. Using 1.0 mM H2O2, DEP
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degradation occurred within 60 min, and then changed slightly when the reaction time
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was extended to 240 min, which was probably due to the rapid decomposition of H2O2
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within 60 min. Figure S1b shows that 1.0 and 2.0 mM H2O2 were almost completely
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decomposed by V2O3 within 60 and 120 min, respectively. However, the H2O2
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decomposition with initial concentrations at 5.0 and 10 mM, reached only up to 58.3%
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and 46.1%, respectively within 240 min. This behavior together was ascribed to the
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reaction between H2O2 and •OH to produce less reactive HOO• radical which was
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enhanced by excess of H2O2. This indicated that V2O3 activated H2O2 efficiently for DEP
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degradation, and that the rate of DEP degradation was H2O2-concentration dependent.
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Figure S2a shows that DEP was rapidly degraded by H2O2 (5.0 mM) with varied V2O3
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loadings, and that the DEP degradation efficiency increased from 22.5% to 99.6%, and
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the corresponding kobs increased from 0.0045 to 0.0655 min–1 when V2O3 loading
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increased from 0.05 to 1.0 g/L (Figure S2b). In contrast, it was observed that only 6.3%
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of DEP (25 mg/L in total) was adsorbed by 1.0 g/L V2O3 in the absence of H2O2 (data not
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shown). The combined results shown in Figures 1 and S2 suggested that the rate of DEP
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and the optimum molar ratio of H2O2 and V2O3 was determined to be 1:0.6 in the
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degradation of 0.11 mM of DEP. Furthermore, changes in the total organic carbon (TOC)
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were monitored to evaluate the mineralization efficiency of DEP. As shown in Figure 1b,
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the TOC decreased markedly from 15.4 to 10.5 mgcarbon/L when increasing the V2O3
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loading from 0.05 to 1.0 g/L. The corresponding TOC removal increased from 3.1% to
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34.3% in the V2O3/H2O2 reaction suspension, while the TOC did not change in the
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reaction with DEP/H2O2 without V2O3. These results suggested that increasing the V2O3
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loading favored DEP degradation and mineralization in the V2O3/H2O2 system.
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GC-MS analysis of intermediates was conducted and the details are described in SI
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(Text S5, Figure S3). Briefly, the changes in the concentrations of the major
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intermediates, including MEP, PA, and m-OH-DEP followed a similar pattern with a
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marked increase within 60 min, and a swift decrease when the reaction extended to 240
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min (Figure 1c). These results were attributed to the accumulation of intermediates due to
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the initially rapid DEP degradation within 60 min (Figure 1a), and the delayed direct
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degradation of intermediates themselves after DEP was depleted. Furthermore, the mass
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balance of the total amount of products formed versus the amount of DEP degraded
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showed that the rate decreased from 81% to 11.2% by increasing the reaction time from
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30 to 240 min, which together with TOC analysis indicated that other ring-opening
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products were produced and further oxidized to CO2 and H2O (Figure 1b). In addition,
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the GC-MS analysis results were combined with quantum chemical calculations to
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identify the likely pathways of DEP degradation by •OH and the detailed discussion is
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presented in SI (Table S1, Text S5, Figures S3-S7).
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Identification of dominant reactive species in the V2O3/H2O2 system: Free radical
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quenching studies with ethanol as a quencher of •OH were used to identify the dominant
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reactive species for DEP degradation. Figure S8a shows that the addition of ethanol (200
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mM) completely inhibited DEP degradation by 0.2 g/L V2O3 and 5.0 mM H2O2,
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suggesting that •OH was the dominant radical responsible for DEP degradation in the
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V2O3/H2O2 system. EPR coupled with spin trapping agent DMPO was used to further
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determine the types of free radical produced at different H2O2 concentrations and V2O3
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loadings. Figure 2a shows that a significant EPR signal containing four lines with
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intensity ratios of 1:2:2:1 was formed in the V2O3/H2O2 suspension, while insignificant
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signal was found in V2O3 suspension or H2O2 solution. The EPR signal was attributed to
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DMPO-OH adducts with hyperfine splitting constants of aN = aH = 14.9 G, in accordance
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with a previous study,33-35 suggesting •OH formation in V2O3/H2O2. Additionally,
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DMPO-OH peak intensity increased gradually from 0.7 to 16.1 (104 a.u.) with increasing
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V2O3 dosage from 0.05 g/L to 1.0 g/L, which indicated that the •OH concentration
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increased by larger V2O3 loadings (Figure 2b). EPR spectra of the V2O3/H2O2 system
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with different H2O2 concentrations showed a decrease in DMPO-OH peak intensity from
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3.6 to 2.1 (104 a.u.) with increasing H2O2 concentration from 1.0 to 10 mM (Figures S8b
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and 8c). This indicated that excess H2O2 scavenged some of the •OH, which inhibited the
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trapping reaction between DMPO and •OH.
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Effects of pH on DEP degradation in the V2O3/H2O2 system
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Figure 3a shows that the DEP degradation efficiency decreased from 70.1% to 56.4%
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when increasing the pH from 3.0 to 9.0, and the corresponding kobs decreased from
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0.0165 to 0.0101 min–1, which showed that V2O3/H2O2 can degrade DEP effectively over
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a wide pH range, although the rate of DEP degradation decreased with increasing
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reaction pH (Figure S9a). The concentration of V ion released from V2O3/H2O2 during
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DEP degradation was also examined. Figure S9b shows that the concentration of
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dissolved V ions from V2O3 during the reactions increased from 0.98 to 5.73 mg/L when
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the V2O3 loading was increased from 0.05 to 1.0 g/L in the presence of 2.0 mM H2O2 at
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pH 5.0 for 240 min. However, the corresponding ratio of V dissolution ([V]dissolved/
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[V]total×100%) decreased from 2.87% to 0.84%, suggesting that increasing V2O3 loading
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markedly reduced the rate of V ion dissolution. Figure 3b shows that the V ion
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concentration decreased from 3.12 to 0.13 mg/L when increasing the pH from 3.0 to 9.0
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(V2O3, 0.1 g/L), which indicated that the V ion dissolution was greatly reduced with
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increasing reaction pH in the V2O3/H2O2 system.
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Furthermore, it was observed that V(IV) was the dominant dissolved V species, with
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its concentration increasing from 0.62 to 4.64 mg/L as the V2O3 loading was increased
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from 0.05 to 1.0 g/L, which was markedly higher than the V(V) concentration (0.17 to
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0.49 mg/L) (Figure S9c). To further test the contribution of V(IV) ions to DEP
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degradation via homogeneous Fenton-like reactions, DEP degradation in the V(IV)/H2O2
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solution system was examined. The concentration of V(IV) used in this experiment
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ranged from 0.01 to 0.1 mM, which was identical to the concentration range of V(IV)
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dissolved from V2O3/H2O2. Figure S10 shows that less than 15% of DEP (25 mg/L) was
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degraded by 5.0 mM H2O2 in the presence of different V(IV) ion concentrations (0.01–
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0.1 mM), indicating that the homogenous Fenton reaction made a limited contribution to
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DEP degradation in the V2O3/H2O2 system.
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Catalytic decomposition of H2O2 by VO2 and V2O5 for DEP degradation
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contaminant, however, V(V) and V(IV) are usually the dominant V species in soil.19
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Therefore, the catalytic decomposition of H2O2 by VO2 and V2O5 for DEP degradation
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were also examined. As shown in Figure S11, 48.8% and 54.1% of DEP was degraded by
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0.5 g/L VO2 in the presence of 1.0 and 2.0 mM H2O2, respectively, with the
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corresponding kobs increasing from 0.0033 to 0.0047 min–1 (Figure S11c). EPR results
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showed a strong DMPO-OH signal observed in the VO2/H2O2 system and the peak
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intensity gradually decreased as the H2O2 concentration increased from 0.5 to 10 mM,
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indicating that •OH was formed, but rapidly consumed by excess H2O2. The change in
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DMPO-OH intensity was consistent with DEP degradation kinetics (Figure S11d).
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Similar results were observed in the V2O5/H2O2 system. V2O5 can also catalyze the
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decomposition of H2O2 to form •OH and degrade DEP with higher efficiency (Figure
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H2O2 (2.0 mM) decomposition rates by V2O3, VO2 and V2O5 (0.1 g/L) at pH 7.0 (50 mM
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borate buffer) were examined and the comparison was made with decomposition rates of
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H2O2 by Fe minerals reported in previous studies.12, 15 Figure S13 shows that H2O2 were
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decomposed efficiently by various V minerals. The rates of H2O2 decomposition (kd, H2O2)
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were 1.41, 0.2 and 0.07 h-1 for V2O3, VO2 and V2O5, respectively. Surface area is an
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important factor that influences heterogeneous H2O2 decomposition,15 and thus kd, H2O2
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kSA. Table S3 displays the kSA values of V minerals in this study and Fe minerals
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collected from previous studies.12, 15 The results suggest that kSA of V2O3 was 3–4 orders
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of magnitude larger than that of Fe minerals. For the soil dominant V species such as
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VO2 and V2O5, their kSA values were 136.5–2087, 9.8–150.5 times larger than those of Fe
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oxides such as goethite, hematite and FeOOH, respectively. These results suggest that V
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minerals were more efficient than Fe minerals in catalyzing H2O2 decomposition.
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Proposed •OH formation pathways in the V/H2O2 system
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Mechanism of H2O2 activation by V2O3 and VO2 particles: Similar to the Fe-mineral
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based Fenton-like process ,10 it was hypothesized that single electron transfer from
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surface V(III)( ≡V(III)) or V(IV) (≡V(IV)) to H2O2 was the dominant process for •OH
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generation (Eq. 1 and 2), and a chain reaction can be propagated as V(III) or V(IV) can
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≡ V(III) + H 2 O 2 →≡ V(IV)+ • OH + - OH
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≡ V(IV) + H 2 O 2 →≡ V(V)+ •OH + - OH
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≡ V(IV) + H 2 O 2 →≡ V(III)+ HO•2
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To clarify these processes, XPS, XRD, and EPR techniques were used to characterize
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V-oxides before and after reaction in the V/H2O2 system. Figure S14 shows phase
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transformations in the V minerals before and after reaction. For V2O3, only the V2O3
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phase was observed before the reaction, but a new V6O13 phase, which was a mixture of
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V(IV) and V(V) minerals, appeared after the reaction with H2O2, indicating that V(III)
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transferred electrons to H2O2 to produce V(IV) and V(V) (Eq.1 and 2). Similarly, V6O13
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was formed by VO2 after the reaction, which suggested that V6O13 was the dominant
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mineral formed in the reaction of V2O3 or VO2 with H2O2.
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XPS analysis showed that V(IV) and V(V) were the dominant V species on the V2O3
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surface before reaction, which was ascribed to the partial oxidation of V(III) by oxygen
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(Figure S15). After reacting with H2O2, the ratio of V(IV) decreased from 22.2% to
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15.4%, while the ratio of V(V) increased from 77.8% to 84.6% (Table S2). Similarly,
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V(IV) and V(V) were the dominant V species on the VO2 surface, with the ratio of V(IV)
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decreasing after the reaction with H2O2. These results further indicated that electron
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transfer from surface V(III)/V(IV) to H2O2 was the dominant process in H2O2 activation,
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which was consistent with XRD results. EPR analysis showed an eight-component
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hyperfine structure for both VO2 and V2O3 bulk particles, which was characteristic of a
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V(IV) center ion, according to a previous study (Figure S16).36 Moreover, the peak
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intensities of V(IV) increased for V2O3, but decreased for VO2 after the reaction, which
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further confirmed electron transfer from V(III) and V(IV) to H2O2 during the reaction and
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Mechanism of H2O2 activation by V2O5 particles: Catalytic decomposition of H2O2 by
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V2O5 has been proposed to exhibit a similar mechanism to other Fenton-like processes,15
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with V(IV) regenerated on V2O5 surface (Eq. 4) activating H2O2 to produce •OH. XRD
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results showed that the V2O5 phase changed slightly before and after the reaction,
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suggesting that V2O5 was a stable catalyst toward H2O2 activation for DEP degradation.
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However, interestingly, 7.5% V(IV) was formed on the surface of V2O5 particles before
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the reaction according to XPS analysis (Table S2). This behavior was due to vanadyl
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oxygen being easily desorbed from the V2O5 lattice during V2O5 particle synthesis, which
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resulted in the formation of oxygen vacancies and V(IV) center ions.37 As each oxygen
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vacancy can leave an electron at the vanadium ion site, reducing V(V) to V(IV),38 both
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oxygen vacancies (OVs) and related V(IV) species play an important role in the catalytic
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activity of V2O5 particles. Furthermore, an OV is generally considered a basic defect in
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the V2O5 lattice and, as such, defects usually contain an unpaired electron and can be
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detected by EPR. However, V(IV) has a wide range of EPR signals (3200–3700 G)
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overlapping with the OV EPR signal at 3400 G. Consequently, the existence of OV was
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not detected by EPR in current study. To determine the role of V(IV) regeneration on the particle surface in H2O2 activation,
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the kobs of DEP degradation was normalized to V2O5 and VO2 loadings, giving
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OVs have been reported to play an important role in •OH formation in other systems,
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the DMPO-OH EPR signal in the V2O5/H2O2 system, with the peak intensities increasing
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small proportion of total •OH on VO2 surface (Figure S17). These results indicated that
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DMPO, leading to a significant EPR signal in aqueous solution. However, OV-bound
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(Figure 4b). Meanwhile, the EPR signal for V(IV) was also observed, although its peak
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OV production (Figure S18). Furthermore, the OV peak intensities decreased markedly in
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intensities increasing 7.43-fold in the presence of F– (Figure 4c), which was significantly
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current study. These results indicated that accompanied by OVs disappeared, electron
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of V ion dissolution from V2O3 decreased dramatically in the presence of soil particles.
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reduced by soil particles. The reduction of V ion concentration in the solution was
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minerals and humic substances in the subsurface environment, have important effects on
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the efficiency of soil and groundwater remediation by H2O2-ISCO processes, interactions
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between the soil abundant vanadium minerals and H2O2 have rarely been investigated.
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This study provides a detailed mechanism of H2O2 decomposition and •OH formation in
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the V/H2O2 system. In V2O3 and VO2-based Fenton-like processes, •OH was produced
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via single electron transfer from V(III)/V(IV) to H2O2. However, in the V2O5/H2O2
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system, OVs played an important role in •OH formation, with transfer of an OV electron
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to H2O2 yielding OV-bound •OH. This process was testified by reacting the synthesized
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OV-rich V2O5 nanoparticles with H2O2 to further verify the role of OVs, with EPR
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analysis showing that OV was consumed during the reaction, accompanied by •OH
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vanadium minerals and H2O2 when using H2O2 for ISCO remediation of contaminated
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decomposition of H2O2 for contaminant degradation under environmentally relevant
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V2O3 (127 mg/kg V in soil), which was in the range of V background content (0-400
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g/kg18). Hence, H2O2 may be decomposed by V minerals naturally for contaminant
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degradation in the H2O2-based ISCO process. Particularly for soil near vanadium
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titanomagnetite mining sites, the V concentration is usually high (∼940 mg/kg in the
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Panzhihua region of China), and coexists with other organic contaminants .21 Therefore,
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Supporting Information Available: XRD, XPS and EPR analysis of vanadium minerals
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before and after reaction, DFT calculations and detailed discussion on the pathways of
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DEP degradation can be found in this section (Text S1-S5, Tables S1-3, and Figures S1-
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18). This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org/.
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Acknowledgments This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research
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and Development Program of China (2017YFA0207001, 2016YFD0800204), the
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (41671478, 41671239), the Natural
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Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20170050), the 135 Program of
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Institute of Soil Science (ISSASIP1660) and Youth Innovation Promotion Association of
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CAS (2014270).
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Figure 1 Kinetics of DEP degradation as a function of H2O2 concentration and V2O3 loading in the V2O3/H2O2 system: (a) DEP degradation; (b) changes in TOC and TOC removal during reaction; (c) concentration profiles of DEP degradation intermediates and mass balance of products (2.0 mM H2O2 and 0.1 g/L V2O3). Reaction conditions: V2O3 loading = 0.05–1.0 g/L; [H2O2]0 = 1.0–10 mM; [DEP]0 = 25 mg/L; pH 5.0; and 25 °C.
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