{"title":"Fabrication of nitrogen-doped MXene composite electrode for efficient removal of sulfadiazine in homogeneous electro-Fenton system","authors":"Huilai Liu, Zhihao Li, Defeng Kong, Xing Chen","doi":"10.4491/eer.2024.441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2024.441","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, N-MXene-x (x denotes N loading) nanocomposites were successfully prepared by thermostatic ultrasonication and used as a cathode to construct a homogeneous electro-Fenton (EF) system for the degradation of sulphadiazine (SDZ). The characterization results that the electrocatalytic activity of the N-doped composites is significantly increased, which facilitates the two-electron oxygen reduction reaction (2e--ORR) and thus promotes the generation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the system. Experimental findings demonstrate that the N-MXene-3 cathode exhibits exceptional degradation performance for SDZ (97% removal in 60 min) during the homogeneous EF process. The catalytic oxidation mechanism of the N-MXene-3/EF system was explored by free radical quenching, electron paramagnetic resonance and frontier orbital theory studies, in which the main active substance for degrading SDZ was •OH. DFT calculations combined with the analysis of LC-MS results showed that SDZ was degraded mainly through amino oxidation, hydroxylation of heterocyclic roots, heterocyclic root ring opening, and C-S bond breaks. In addition, the N-MXene-3 cathode catalyst prepared in this study showed excellent stability through repeated experiments and also showed good performance in real water sample.","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"30 3","pages":"240441-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147334059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Super-hydrophobic blended needle-punched nonwovens integrated with silica-aerogels for PM2.5 filtration","authors":"Hanur Meku Yesuf, Syed Rashedul Islam, Xueping Zhang, Xiaohong Qin","doi":"10.4491/eer.2024.404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2024.404","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the hydrophobic and PM2.5 filtration properties of blended needle-punched nonwovens with the treatment of silica-aerogel. The treatment was done by padding. The BET, SEM and FTIR studies were used to investigate the influence of silica-aerogel on needle-punched nonwovens such as surface properties and molecular interaction. All the treated samples showed super-hydrophobic properties with water contact angle (WCA) of around 154.2 - 154.79o, filtration efficiency of 99.07 - 99.21%, pressure drop of 72.83 - 79.71 Pa and dust-holding capacity of 3,459,520 - 3,472,060 particles/cm2. The findings demonstrated that silica-aerogel played a vital role in enhancing the hydrophobicity, filtration efficiency, dust-holding capacity and fabric density of blended needle-punched nonwovens with statistically significant performance (p<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in pressure drop, air permeability, porosity, and fabric thickness, which indicated that the treated samples could perform without structure loss as compared to the untreated.","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"30 3","pages":"240404-0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"http://www.eeer.org/upload/eer-2024-404.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147332518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seokwon Kang, Gusugsen Ren, Taejung Lee, Youngmin Jo
{"title":"Correlation between carbonaceous materials and fine particulate matters in urban school classrooms","authors":"Seokwon Kang, Gusugsen Ren, Taejung Lee, Youngmin Jo","doi":"10.4491/eer.2023.516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2023.516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"11 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139167091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pallavi Mahajan-Tatpate, S. Dhume, Naveenkumar Jayakumar, Y. Chendake, Sachin Chavan, Ramdas Khomane, Vinayak Wadagaonkar
{"title":"Separation of Cr and Mn by polysulfone (PSF) based ultrafiltration (UF) membranes anchored with nanoparticles - Mathematical analysis of rejection properties","authors":"Pallavi Mahajan-Tatpate, S. Dhume, Naveenkumar Jayakumar, Y. Chendake, Sachin Chavan, Ramdas Khomane, Vinayak Wadagaonkar","doi":"10.4491/eer.2023.543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2023.543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"340 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139171976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increasing the stability of LiMn2O4 electrodes under high-current-density conditions via SoC control in an electrochemical lithium recovery system","authors":"Eunhee Kim, Byunghyun Kim, Jaehan Lee","doi":"10.4491/eer.2023.677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2023.677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"94 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139177768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of energy saving and emission reduction effect of distributed energy system","authors":"Rong Ma, Yaotian Guo","doi":"10.4491/eer.2023.529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2023.529","url":null,"abstract":"The conventional evaluation methods of energy conservation and emission reduction lack the discussion of quantification index of energy conservation and emission reduction potential, and the evaluation effect is poor. Therefore, an evaluation method for energy conservation and emission reduction of distributed energy systems is proposed, which considers system dynamics and demand response. According to the requirements of system dynamics analysis, the relational variables in the system dynamics model are determined. The input-output relationship of energy saving, and emission reduction effect evaluation is described by system dynamics equation, and the input-output relationship of energy saving, and emission reduction effect evaluation is determined. Based on the maximum profit objective function and the minimum cost objective function of the user, the continuum equation of the medium transmission process in the distributed energy system is obtained. The evaluation indexes of energy saving, and emission reduction effect are selected from the three aspects of power consumption side, power generation side and the system itself to realize the evaluation of energy saving and emission reduction effect. The experimental results show that the evaluation curve obtained by this method is basically consistent with the actual curve, and the evaluation accuracy is high.","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139287174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Byeongcheol Lee, Huijeong Kim, Woo-Bin Lee, Young-Min Kim
{"title":"Acetic acid production by the two-step thermal treatment of tobacco filter","authors":"Byeongcheol Lee, Huijeong Kim, Woo-Bin Lee, Young-Min Kim","doi":"10.4491/eer.2023.601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4491/eer.2023.601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11704,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Engineering Research","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139289238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}