The reactions of three α-oxoaldehydes (methylglyoxal, glyoxal, and pyruvic acid) with hydroxyl radicals generated by sonolysis of water were investigated using an electron spin resonance (electron paramagnetic resonance) spin-trapping method, and their reaction kinetics were investigated. It is apparent from our experimental results that methylglyoxal exhibits the highest reactivity of the thre...

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The sonication of ionic organic liquids leads to decomposition of the liquids. Multibubble sonoluminescence spectra and headgas analysis reveal a variety of decomposition products from the sonolysis of N,N'-dialkylimidazolium ionic liquids. The decomposition is a result of acoustic cavitation, which generates localized hot spots from the implosive collapse of bubbles in the ionic liquids. Despi...

The accelerated photocatalytic degradation of industrial wastewater using titanium dioxide as catalyst activated by ultrasound has been investigated in photocatalytic reactor using ultraviolet light source of 125 W. The effect of number of parameters, such as pH, oxidant concentration and catalyst dose has been examined to study the degradation rates in sonolytic, photocatalytic and sonophotoca...

Perfluorinated chemicals such as perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are environmentally persistent and recalcitrant to most conventional chemical and microbial treatment technologies. In this paper, we show that sonolysis is able to decompose PFOS and PFOA present in groundwater beneath a landfill. However, the pseudo first-order rate constant for the sonochemica...

The combination of sonolysis and ozonolysis as an advanced oxidation process was investigated to gain insight into factors affecting enhancement of the combined system. Sonolysis, ozonolysis, and a combination of the two were used to facilitate the degradation of three known organic contaminants, nitrobenzene (NB), 4-nitrophenol (4NP), and 4-chlorophenol (4-CP), in water. Experiments were perfo...