PMID- 31476504 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20191206 LR - 20191217 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 697 DP - 2019 Dec 20 TI - A new insight into the main mechanism of 2,4-dichlorophenol dechlorination by Fe/Ni nanoparticles. PG - 133996 LID - S0048-9697(19)33973-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133996 [doi] AB - Three possible dechlorination mechanisms of chloroorganics by nanoscale zero-valent iron (n-ZVI) have been proposed and widely accepted, however, the main mechanism is still controversial and not verified by experimental results. In this study, 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) was selected as the target pollutant and the experiments were carried out for the screening of the main mechanism of 2,4-DCP dechlorination by n-ZVI and Fe/Ni nanoparticles (n-Fe/Ni). The results indicated that >95% of 2,4-DCP could be dechlorinated to phenol by n-Fe/Ni within 120 min, while 2,4-DCP could hardly be dechlorinated by n-ZVI particles. The active hydrogen atom (H*) that transformed from H(2) under the catalysis of Ni was responsible for >90% of 2,4-DCP dechlorination by n-Fe/Ni and <10% of the dechlorination was attributed to the direct electron transfer from ZVI. Fe(2+) was not able to dechlorinate 2,4-DCP. Correspondently, Ni in n-Fe/Ni mainly acted as a catalyst, while the acceleration of electron transfer from ZVI by Ni had a positive effect on 2,4-DCP dechlorination. The investigations on the relative importance of these three mechanisms are essential to iron-based remediation technology. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Ruan, Xia AU - Ruan X AD - College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China; Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China. FAU - Liu, Hong AU - Liu H AD - College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China; Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China. Electronic address: liuhong64@126.com. FAU - Wang, Junwen AU - Wang J AD - College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China; Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China. FAU - Zhao, Dongye AU - Zhao D AD - Environmental Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. FAU - Fan, Xianyuan AU - Fan X AD - College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China; Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190819 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - 2,4-dichlorophenol OT - Dechlorination OT - Ni OT - ZVI OT - n-Fe/Ni EDAT- 2019/09/03 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/03 06:01 CRDT- 2019/09/03 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/08/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/08/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/09/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/03 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/09/03 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(19)33973-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133996 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2019 Dec 20;697:133996. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133996. Epub 2019 Aug 19.