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Super-efficient Reduction of 4-nitrophenol Using Raw Pelagic Clays as Catalysts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Peiping Zhang ,
Tongtong Liu ,
Xue Sun ,
Qing Liang ,
Wei Zhang ,
Weikun Ning ,
Wenqing Li ,
Xuefa Shi  and
Shiding Miao
Peiping Zhang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, Solid Waste Recycling Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Tongtong Liu
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, Solid Waste Recycling Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Xue Sun
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, Solid Waste Recycling Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Qing Liang
Affiliation:
Jilin Provincial International Cooperation Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Clean Energy Materials, and Electron Microscopy Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Wei Zhang
Affiliation:
Jilin Provincial International Cooperation Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Clean Energy Materials, and Electron Microscopy Center, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Weikun Ning
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, Solid Waste Recycling Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Wenqing Li
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources Evaluation in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Natural Resources, Changchun 130061, China
Xuefa Shi*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Marine Geology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266200, China Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Metallogeny (MNR), First Institute of Oceanography (MNR), Qingdao 266061, China
Shiding Miao*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, Solid Waste Recycling Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
*
e-mail: xfshi@fio.org.cn
e-mail: miaosd@iccas.ac.cn
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Abstract

Natural clays are often employed as substrates for heterogeneous catalysts. However, the direct use of raw clays as catalysts has received less research attention. The objective of the present study was to help fill this gap by investigating catalytic properties of raw pelagic clays (PC) collected from the Indian Ocean. The raw PC were discovered to be efficient catalysts in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) in the presence of NaBH4. The effects of parameters including pH values, dosages of PC, and initial concentration of 4-NP and NaBH4 on the conversion or degradation rate of 4-NP have been investigated. The 4-NP was observed to be completely degraded within 480 s under conditions of 0.10 mM 4-NP, 25.0 mM NaBH4, and 0.20 g/L PC at an initial pH value of 7.0. The apparent rate constant was evaluated to be 27.53 × 10–3 s–1. Unlike previous pseudo-first order kinetics experiments, the induction period and degradation stages were observed to occur simultaneously during the PC catalysis. The S-shaped kinetics for 4-NP conversion was found to be perfectly matched by Fermi's function, and the enzyme-like catalysis by PC was appointed to describe the kinetics. Species of Fe(III), Mn(IV), and Mn(III) in PC were found to be essential, and were partly reduced to Fe(0) and Mn(II) by NaBH4 in our reaction, contributing to rapid conversion of 4-NP to 4-aminophenol (4-AP). The raw PC was converted to magnetic PC (m-PC) particles, which made PC particles separate easily for cycling use. This discovery would also have applications in continuous flow-fluid catalysis.

Keywords

Fe-Mn nodulesFermi’s functionFlow-through experiment4-nitrophenolPelagic clay
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Clays and Clay Minerals , Volume 71 , Issue 6 , December 2023 , pp. 745 - 759
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Associate Editor: Jana Madejová

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