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Fe-Mn bi-metallic oxides loaded on granular activated carbon to enhance dye removal by catalytic ozonation

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A Fe-Mn bi-metallic oxide supported on granular activated carbon (Fe-Mn GAC) has been fabricated by an impregnation-desiccation method and tested in the catalytic ozonation of methyl orange (MO) degradation and mineralization. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy characterizations revealed that Fe-Mn oxides were successfully loaded and uniformly distributed on the GAC, and nitrogen adsorption isotherms showed that the supported GAC retained a large surface area and a high pore volume compared with the pristine GAC. The catalytic activity was systematically assessed by monitoring the MO removal efficiencies at different operational parameters, such as catalyst dosage, initial solution pH, and ozone flow rate. The Fe-Mn GAC exhibited better catalytic activity relative to ozone alone and GAC alone, improving the TOC removal by 24.5 and 11.5 % and COD removal by 13.6 and 7.3 %, respectively. The reusability of the hybrid was examined over five consecutive cyclic treatments. The Fe-Mn GAC catalytic activity was only a slight loss in the cycles, showing good stability. The addition of Na2CO3 as hydroxyl radicals (•OH) scavengers proved that the catalytic ozonation mechanism was the enhanced generation of •OH by the Fe-Mn GAC. The above results render the Fe-Mn GAC an industrially promising candidate for catalytic ozonation of dye contaminant removal.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support supplied by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, P. R. China (Project Nos. B2015203303 and B2015203300), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Project No. 2015M580216), the Youth Teacher Independent Research Program of Yanshan University (Project Nos. 15LGA013 and 14LGB021), and the Doctoral Foundation Program of Yanshan University (Project Nos. B849 and B878).

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    Shoufeng Tang, Deling Yuan, Qi Zhang, Yameng Liu, Qi Zhang, Zhengquan Liu & Haiming Huang

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Tang, S., Yuan, D., Zhang, Q. et al. Fe-Mn bi-metallic oxides loaded on granular activated carbon to enhance dye removal by catalytic ozonation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 23, 18800–18808 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-7030-5

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