Achieving arsenic concentrations of <1⯵g/L by Fe(0) electrolysis: The exceptional performance of magnetite.
Water Res
; 168: 115170, 2020 Jan 01.
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ABSTRACT
Consumption of drinking water containing arsenic at concentrations even below the World Health Organization provisional limit of 10⯵g/L can still lead to unacceptable health risks. Consequently, the drinking water sector in the Netherlands has recently agreed to target 1⯵g/L of arsenic in treated water. Unfortunately, in many poor, arsenic-affected countries, the costs and complexity of current methods that can achieve <1⯵g/L are prohibitive, which highlights the need for innovative methods that can remove arsenic to <1⯵g/L without costly support infrastructure and complicated supply chains. In this work, we used Fe(0) electrolysis, a low cost and scalable technology that is also known as Fe(0) electrocoagulation (EC), to achieve <1⯵g/L residual dissolved arsenic. We compared the arsenic removal performance of green rust (GR), ferric (oxyhydr)oxides (Fe(III) oxides) and magnetite (Mag) generated by EC at different pH (7.5 and 9) in the presence of As(III) or As(V) (initial concentrations of 200-11,000⯵g/L). Although GR and Fe(III) oxides removed up to 99% of initial arsenic, neither Fe phase could reliably meet the 1⯵g/L target at both pH values. In contrast, EC-generated Mag consistently achieved <1⯵g/L, regardless of the initial As(V) concentration and pH. Only solutions with initial As(III) concentrations ≥2200⯵g/L resulted in residual arsenic >1⯵g/L. As K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy showed that Mag also sorbed arsenic in a unique mode, consistent with partial arsenic incorporation near the particle surface. This sorption mode contrasts with the binuclear, corner sharing surface complex for GR and Fe(III) oxides, which could explain the difference in arsenic removal efficiency among the three Fe phases. Our results suggest that EC-generated Mag is an attractive method for achieving <1⯵g/L particularly in decentralized water treatment.
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Arsénico
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Contaminantes Químicos del Agua
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Purificación del Agua
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Europa
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2020
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