Degradation of Polychlorinated Ethanes and Methanes Using Zero-Valent Iron Powder

Ito, H; Suto, K; Inoue, C; Chida, T

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2529901

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Journal Article

Year

2003

Language

English

HERO ID 2529901
In Press No
Year 2003
Title Degradation of Polychlorinated Ethanes and Methanes Using Zero-Valent Iron Powder
Authors Ito, H; Suto, K; Inoue, C; Chida, T
Journal Mizu Kankyo Gakkaishi / Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment
Volume 26
Issue 1 (2003)
Page Numbers 637-642
Abstract Polychlorinated ethanes and methanes were reductively dechlorinated using iron powder E-200 (supplied by Dowa Iron Powder Co., Ltd.) in the aqueous layer. Time courses of their concentrations were observed and the intermediates and final degradation products were determined quantitatively. The degradation reaction of these compounds showed a pseudo-first-order rate process and the rate constants were calculated. Tetrachloroethanes and tetrachloromethane were easily degraded in the aqueous layer, but dichloroethanes, chloroethane, dichloromethane and chloromethane were only slightly degraded. The rate constants and the reaction products of polychlorinated ethane isomers, that is, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane and 1,1,1,2-tetrachloroethane, or 1,1,1-trichloroethane and 1,1,2- trichloroethane, were significantly different from each other. This denotes that the main degradation pathways of these compounds are different. The possibility of using iron powder for the remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with chlorinated organic compounds is discussed.
Doi 10.2965/jswe.26.637
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Keyword Water Pollution Treatment; Groundwater Pollution; Chlorophylls; Organic Compounds; Soil; Bioremediation; Chlorinated hydrocarbons; Remediation; ethane; Groundwater; Iron; Pollution control; Chlorine compounds; Degradation; Degradation Products; Methane
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