[Preparation and Characterization of Quinone Functional Polymer Biocarrier (PET-AQS) for Biodenitrification Catalysis].

ABSTRACT

Anthraquinone sodium sulfonate (AQS) was immobilized on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) by chemical synthesis, forming quinone functional polymer biocarrier (PET-AQS), and its characteristics in biodenitrification catalysis were analyzed. Quinone group was demonstrated to be successfully immobilized on the surface of the polymer and the concentration of immobilized quinone was 0.140 6 mmol x g(-1) by Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectrometry (ATR-IR) and Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS). The PET-AQS could accelerate biodenitrification. The relationship between the denitrification rate constant (K(x)) and the PET-AQS concentration (C(PET-AQS)) obeyed the pseudo-zero order kinetics. After ten rounds of recycling in the biodenitrification system with approximately 0.056 2 mmol quinone, the denitrification rate was kept at more than 1.2 times of the blank system. This indicated that PET-AQS exhibited a good operational stability and was beneficial to practical application.