Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a perfluorocarboxylic acid that is difficult to treat by most conventional methods. As a result, it is often removed from solution by adsorption on powdered activated carbon (PAC), followed by incineration of the spent carbon. To provide a new approach for treatment, PFOA was exposed to sulfate radicals (SO4(-•)) produced by thermolysis of persulfate (S2O8(2-)) ...

Removal of natural organic matter (NOMs) from actual water is a major challenge in the context worldwide pollution resources. The removal humic acids system combining biochar adsorption and ultrasonic persulfate oxidation was studied this paper. effects addition, concentration initial pH were investigated. A high rate up to 92.5% achieved for combined biochar/ultrasonic/persulfate system, versu...

In this work, we synthesized a trypsin-stabilized fluorescent gold nanocluster. It was found that sulfide interacted with the nanocluster, which could result in significant fluorescence quenching. With this quenching effect, a fluorescence sulfide sensor was developed. This sensor responded linearly to sulfide in the range of 50 nM to 8 μM, and was capable of detecting sulfide as low as 5.5 nM....

The oxidative decarboxylation of levulinic acid (LA) by silver(I)/persulfate [Ag(I)/S₂O₈²⁻] has been investigated in this paper. The effects of buffer solution, initial pH value, time and temperature and dosages of Ag(I)/S₂O₈²⁻ on the decarboxylation of LA were examined in batch experiments and a reaction scheme was proposed on basis of the reaction process. The experimental results showed that...

Various calorimetric methods of estimating epinephrine have been described by different workers using different chemical reagents such as potassium persulfate (I), mercuric chloride (2-4), potassium iodate (5), ammonium molybdate (6), diazobenzenesulfonic acid (7), and the ninhydrin test (8). None of the methods, however, is satisfactory for the estimation of epinephrine in blood. Some are not ...

Abstract The role of high-valent Fe has rarely been explored in persulfate-based heterogeneous reaction. Herein, the existence Fe(IV) is verified a visible light-assisted FeTiO3/persulfate system using methyl phenyl sulfoxide as probe. FeTiO3/persulfate/light capable selectively degrading aromatic compounds with lower ionization potentials including tetracycline and bisphenol A by photo-generat...