Degradation of dye rhodamine B under visible irradiation with Prussian blue as a photo-Fenton reagent

作者:Liu, Shou-Qing*; Cheng, Shi; Luo, Li; Cheng, Hong-Ying; Wang, Song-Jun; Lou, Shuai
来源:Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2011, 9(1): 31-35.
DOI:10.1007/s10311-009-0242-x

摘要

Rhodamine B can be degraded using Prussian blue as a photo-Fenton like reagent under lambda > 420 nm visible irradiation. Kinetic studies show ln(C (o)/C (t) ) is linearly proportional to the reaction time during the photo-degradation process; thus, the degradation reaction obeys a pseudo-first order kinetic law. It is very interesting that the presence of salinity such as 0.1 M KCl can speed up greatly the degradation rate: the time to achieve 90.0% degradation ratio is shortened from 120.0 to 40.0 min under comparable conditions, which is very useful in the treatment of wastewaters with high content of salinity.