The aim of this work is to study the degradation and mineralization of antibiotic ofloxacin in aqueous medium using the Electro-Fenton method as advanced oxidation technology. In this context, Pt/carbon-felt cell was used to investigate the influence of various parameters including initial pH, different supporting electrolytes, different metal ions as a catalyst and antibiotic concentration ove...

The present study focuses on effects of operational parameters on electrochemical wastewater treatment for synthetic wastewater. Electro-oxidation has emerged as one of the advanced oxidation processes gaining more attention because it offers many distinctive advantages over other conventional methods such as versatility, high treatment efficiency, safety, amenability of automation and cost eff...

In view of a possible use as anode materials in acidic direct alcohol fuel cells, the electro-catalytic activity of Pt-Ni and Pt-M-Ni (M = Ru, Sn) catalysts for methanol and ethanol oxidation has been widely investigated. An overview of literature data regarding the effect of the addition of Ni to Pt and Pt-M on the methanol and ethanol oxidation activity in acid environment of the resulting bi...

The electrochemical oxidation behaviors of bilirubin (BR) at the bare glassy carbon electrode (GCE) were studied in dimethyl formamide (DMF) containing 1 vol.% of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([bmim][PF6]) as the supporting electrolyte. Some electrochemical parameters of BR oxidation were investigated by cyclic voltammetry and chronocoulometry. The oxidation products were ide...

In this study we address the problem of the response of a (electro)chemical oscillator towards chemical perturbations of different magnitudes. The chemical perturbation was achieved by addition of distinct amounts of trifluoromethanesulfonate (TFMSA), a rather stable and non-specifically adsorbing anion, and the system under investigation was the methanol electro-oxidation reaction under both s...

A graphene nanosheets (GNS) film coated glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was fabricated for sensitive determination of tyrosine (Tyr). The GNS-based sensor was characterized by scanning electron microscope and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The voltammetric techniques were employed to study electro-oxidation of Tyr. The results revealed that the modified electrode showed an electrocatalyt...

Recently, increasingly attentions have been paid to the electro-oxidation of ethanol in alkaline media in the context of using ethanol as a fuel in anion-exchange membrane fuel cell. Alkaline media presents several advantages compared to acidic media. It has been found that the electrocatalytic activity for etanol oxidation in alkaline media is much higher than that in acidic media [1]. Further...

We use spatially resolved photoelectron spectroscopy performed in operando to identify the reaction intermediates of the hydrogen electro-oxidation reaction on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolytes with Pt electrodes. We find that hydroxyl on the zirconia electrolyte is a reaction intermediate in the hydrogen oxidation reaction and that it participates in the rate-determining step. In c...

This investigation attempted to study electrochemical oxidation of formaldehyde at lower concentrations. Experiments were carried out in a batch electrochemical reactor using commercially available RuO2 coated titanium and SS as anode and cathode respectively and covering a wide range in operating conditions. Further, the statistical tool Response surface methodology by Box-Behnken design was u...