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Calcite Mineral Catalyst Capable of Enhancing Micropollutant Degradation during the Ozonation Process at pH7 †

by
Savvina Psaltou
1,
Efthimia Kaprara
2,
Manassis Mitrakas
2 and
Anastasios Zouboulis
1,*
1
Division of Chemical and Environmental Technology, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Division of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Presented at the 4th EWaS International Conference: Valuing the Water, Carbon, Ecological Footprints of Human Activities, Online, 24–27 June 2020.
Environ. Sci. Proc. 2020, 2(1), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2020002026
Published: 14 August 2020

Abstract

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Catalytic ozonation is an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOPs) based on the production of hydroxyl radicals, which are very reactive oxidative species. The aim of this study is to evaluate the catalytic activity of calcite on the ozonation of four different typical micropollutants (atrazine, benzotriazole, carbamazepine, and p-CBA) at pH 7 and for low initial concentrations (4 μΜ) by performing batch mode experiments. These compounds have different physico-chemical characteristics, as well as different rate constants, when reacting with ozone and hydroxyl radicals (•OH), being in the range of <0.15 − 3 × 105 M−1s−1 and 2.4 − 8.8 × 109 M−1s−1, respectively. It was found that most of these micropollutants can be sufficiently removed by the application of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation, using calcite as the catalyst, except for the case of atrazine, which was the compound that was most difficult to degrade, when compared to the application of single ozonation. Carbamazepine with kO3 = 3 × 105 M−1s−1 can be easily removed even by single ozonation after the first minute of the reaction time, and the addition of the catalyst eliminated the oxidation/reaction time. The application of catalytic ozonation resulted in 50% and 68.2% higher removals of benzotriazole and p-CBA, respectively, in comparison with single ozonation, even during the first 3 min of the reaction/oxidation time, due to the higher production of hydroxyl radicals, caused by the catalytic ozonation. For the case of atrazine, the addition of calcite did not enhance the micropollutant degradation, and its removal reached 83% after a 30 min application of catalytic ozonation, whereas during the single ozonation, the removal under the same reaction time was 90%.

1. Introduction

Emerging contaminants (ECs) are usually organic toxic compounds that can be found in the environment at concentrations between ng/L and μg/L [1]. Due to their occurrence at these low concentrations, these compounds are also referred to as micropollutants (MPs) [2]. MPs are usually contained in several consumer products, with the aim to improve human life, but at the same time, they may pose a serious threat to human health and to the ecosystem [3]. The main source of emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment is wastewater treatment effluents. The conventional wastewater treatment plants have not been designed to effectively remove the currently existing refractory organic compounds, and therefore, micropollutants can be discharged, largely untreated, into the nearby surface waters [4]. The development of advanced analytic techniques helped to identify these compounds, and hence, their efficient removal from wastewater treatment systems is now considered an important issue [1].
The applicable methods for the removal of micropollutants can be divided into three main categories: (1) phase-change processes, (2) biological processes, and (3) advanced oxidation processes (AOPs).The published research shows that AOPs are considered as the most efficient methods for the degradation of micropollutants [5]. Catalytic ozonation also belongs to these methods, which can be divided into homogeneous (using several transition metal ions as the catalysts) and heterogeneous (using appropriate solid materials as the catalysts). Catalytic ozonation is based on the degradation of toxic/refractory organic compounds through the decomposition of ozone into hydroxyl radicals (OH), which are powerful, but non-selective oxidant agents [6]. The behavior of micropollutants during the ozonation process can be categorized into three groups, according to the respective reaction rate constants with ozone: ozone-resistant compounds, moderately ozone-reactive compounds, and high-to-moderate ozone-reactive compounds [7].
The aim of this study is to evaluate the catalytic efficiency of calcite during the heterogeneous catalytic ozonation process by evaluating the removal of four typical, low concentration (4 μM) micropollutants, which belong to the three aforementioned categories, i.e., atrazine (ozone-resistant compound) [8], benzotriazole (moderately ozone-reactive compound) [9], carbamazepine (high-to-moderate-reactive ozone compound) [10], and p-CBA (ozone-resistant compound) [11]. Among them, p-CBA was used as a model compound, regarding the indirect evaluation of the hydroxyl radicals’ production, to confirm if calcite (used as a catalyst) can promote the oxidation reaction rate via an improved radical mechanism. Several studies have shown that a positively-charged material can enhance the production of hydroxyl radicals during heterogeneous catalytic ozonation.

2. Materials and Methods

All chemicals were of analytical grade, except from the HPLC-grade acetonitrile (Chem-lab, Zedelgem, Belgium) and phosphoric acid (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA). Atrazine, benzotriazole, carbamazepine, and p-CBA (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) were used as typical/model organic compounds at initial concentrations of 4 μM. Usually, micropollutants occur in a water environment at concentrations ranging from 10–11,600ng/L [3]. However, in some cases, organic compounds like caffeine can be found in concentrations around 0.3 mg/L [12]. All the solutions were prepared with distilled water. Calcite was used as a common catalyst. K2HPO4 and KH2PO4 dilute solutions (Chem-lab, Zedelgem, Belgium) were used to adjust the pH level to 7, a common value for water and municipal wastewater effluents.
Adsorption, ozonation, and catalytic ozonation experiments were performed in batch mode, following the procedure described by Psaltou et al., 2018 [13]. The residual concentrations of micropollutants were determined by HPLC (Thermo, USA) with a UV detector at 254 nm (Thermo, UV2000). The mobile phase consisted of 10 mM phosphoric acid and acetonitrile in the percentages shown in Table 1. The detection limit of the micropollutants was 0.025 μΜ. The concentration of ozone in aqueous solutions was determined by the common indigo method [14]. The major physico-chemical properties of calcite, i.e., the surface area, the pore size distribution (Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET) method), and the point of zero charge (pHpzc) (potentiometric mass titration method) were appropriately determined [15].

3. Results

To evaluate the efficiency of calcite as a catalyst in the heterogeneous catalytic ozonation process, p-CBA was used as a convenient model compound. Other micropollutants that were examined in this study were atrazine, benzotriazole, and carbamazepine. In Table 2, the major physicochemical characteristics of these micropollutants, as well as their kinetic constants, regarding the reaction rates with ozone and hydroxyl radicals are also shown. Calcite is a mineral consisting of almost 100% CaCO3. The surface area and pore size were 6.3 m2/g and 0.038 mL/g, respectively. The point of zero charge of calcite was found to be 9.7.

3.1. Adsorption of Micropollutants by Calcite

The adsorption capacity of calcite, regarding the atrazine, benzotriazole, carbamazepine, and p-CBA organic compounds, is presented in Table 3. The opposite charge between the solid material (IEP) and the organic compound (pKa) favors the affinity between them in the adsorption process. The isoelectric point of calcite is about eight [17]; hence it was positively charged at pH 7, where the oxidation reaction took place. From these micropollutants, two of them were positively charged (benzotriazole, carbamazepine), and the others were negatively charged (atrazine, p-CBA). Because of that, calcite showed a higher uptake capacity for atrazine (289.0 μg/g) than for benzotriazole and carbamazepine. The lowest adsorption capacity was determined in the case of p-CBA, due to the nature of this organic molecule (Koc = 42), which makes it rather difficult to be adsorbed in a solid surface [18].

3.2. Calcite as a Catalyst in Heterogeneous Catalytic Ozonation

The objective of this study was to evaluate the catalytic activity of calcite against four micropollutants, having different properties. Figure 1a and Figure 2a show the results of their decomposition obtained by ozone oxidation during the application of single ozonation and of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation at pH 7. The presence of calcite was found to increase ozone decomposition, when compared to single ozonation experiments for all the examined micropollutants; however, with a different ozone decomposition rate. Carbamazepine with the ozone reaction constant equal to 3 × 105 M−1s−1 [10] reacts very fast with the ozone molecules, and hence, the respective consumption of ozone was high both in the single and in the catalytic ozonation experiments, reaching 94.5% and 97%, respectively, even within the first minute of the reaction/oxidation time. The highest ozone degradation difference between the two ozonation processes was found during p-CBA’s degradation, being 61.3% after 3 min of the treatment process.
The removal of micropollutants was found to show a similar behavior as the decomposition of ozone. The concentration of p-CBA decreased generally in parallel with the decreasing of the ozone concentration during either single or catalytic ozonation. p-CBA cannot be efficiently removed by the application of direct ozonation (kO3 < 0.15 M−1s−1) [11], whereas this compound presents high reactivity with hydroxyl radicals (kOH = 5 × 109 M−1s−1) [16]. p-CBA degraded quickly even during the first minute, regarding the application of both processes, and then, the rate of its removal became smaller up to the respective reaction termination.
As shown in Figure 1b, carbamazepine presented high reactivity with ozone (Table 2), as this compound was quickly degraded during the ozonation process, regardless of the presence of the catalyst (calcite). Furthermore, benzotriazole was efficiently removed by applying either single or catalytic ozonation, and its concentration was below the respective detection limit (0.025 μM) after the 15th and third minute of the reaction/oxidation time, respectively. In the third minute, the removal efficiency of benzotriazole using the catalytic ozonation system was 50% higher than that of single ozonation. On the other hand, atrazine and p-CBA, with reaction rate constants with ozone lower than 6 M−1s−1 (Table 2), were removed at considerably lower kinetic rates during the single ozonation with the final removal efficiency (after the 30min treatment time) being 90% and 96.8%, respectively. The difference between these compounds was due to the presence of calcite (acting as the catalyst), which seemed to favor only the degradation of p-CBA (showing 68% acceleration after the third minute of treatment time), while the removal of atrazine reached 83% upon the termination (i.e., after 30 min) of the heterogeneous catalytic ozonation (Figure 2b). The decomposition of ozone in the presence of atrazine was rather slow in both processes (Figure 1a and Figure 2a), and after 30 min of reaction time, there were still ozone and hydroxyl radical residuals in the system that could still degrade atrazine. Atrazine, despite its low reaction constant with ozone, also has the lowest reaction rate constant with hydroxyl radicals (k•OH = 2.4 × 109M−1s−1) [8]; therefore, it is rather difficult to totally remove, when compared to the other examined organic compounds.

4. Discussion

Micropollutants are toxic and refractory organic compounds, which occur in ecosystems in small concentrations, ranging from ng/L to μg/L. They can be categorized according to the ease of their removal through reactions with ozone as high/moderate and moderately ozone-reactive micropollutants or ozone-resistant compounds [7]. In the present study, the removal rates of four different micropollutants that belong to the different aforementioned categories were examined. Carbamazepine with a 3 × 105M−1s−1reaction rate constant with ozone [10] is a high ozone-reactive micropollutant, and it can be rather easily removed, regardless of calcite’s presence in the ozonation system, as observed by other researches [19,20]. Benzotriazole is a moderately ozone-reactive compound (kO3 = 20 M−1s−1) [9], which can be degraded by applying both single or catalytic ozonation, but the application of catalytic ozonation can decrease the required oxidation treatment time. On the other hand, p-CBA and atrazine are both ozone-resistant organic compounds (Table 1), and their degradation cannot be successful quantitatively by the application of single ozonation (achieved removals 96.8% and 90%, respectively), as in the case of carbamazepine and benzotriazole. The difference between the two ozone-resistant compounds is that while p-CBA has a lower ozone reaction rate constant than atrazine, it presented higher removal rates by applying both single and catalytic ozonation. Atrazine has the lowest reaction rate constant with hydroxyl radicals (kOH = 2.4 × 109 M−1s−1); therefore, the expected acceleration in the production of hydroxyl radicals via the catalytic ozonation was not found to substantially influence the removal of atrazine. p-CBA, having twice the respective kOH value of atrazine, can be removed by almost 100% after the3 min application of catalytic ozonation. Similar results for atrazine were shown by Fan et. al. [21]. The decomposition of ozone in the presence of atrazine is rather slow and, subsequently, so is the (slower) production of hydroxyl radicals. A catalyst can decompose ozone due to its specific structure, increasing the production of hydroxyl radicals, but a part of the oxidants can be also adsorbed by its surface, instead of the desired reaction with the organic pollutants. As a result, the amount of available ozone in the catalytic ozonation system would decrease, in comparison with the case of single ozonation, and the total decomposition of atrazine was inhibited.
Adsorption can be an important procedure for the promotion of the catalytic effect [22,23], but it cannot be used for comparisons, regarding efficiency, in the case of different micropollutants’ degradation, because the respective reaction rate constants with the oxidants still play a predominant role. The opposite charge between the catalyst and the atrazine/p-CBA may favor their contact and probably enhances their removal during the catalytic ozonation. However, their lower reaction constant, when reacting with ozone or with hydroxyl radicals, in comparison with carbamazepine and benzotriazole, overshadows the role of adsorption in catalytic ozonation. Therefore, preliminary adsorption experiments were conducted in this study, attempting to eliminate the possibility that calcite can act as simple adsorbent media and not as a catalyst, improving the oxidation of MPs by ozonation.

5. Conclusions

The heterogeneous catalytic ozonation using calcite as a common, in expensive catalyst for the improvement of micropollutant oxidation/degradation was examined for aqueous solutions of atrazine, benzotriazole, carbamazepine, and p-CBA, and it was found to be capable of increasing their degradation rates, as compared to single ozonation, except for the case of atrazine. After 30 min of catalytic ozonation treatment, eighty-three percent of atrazine was removed, while at the same time, the efficiency of single ozonation was 90%. However, the presence of calcite was found to enhance p-CBA removal, which indicates (indirectly) that calcite can accelerate the production of hydroxyl radicals. Therefore, calcite can be characterized as a catalyst in the process of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation. The removal of benzotriazole and p-CBA reached 98.3% at the third minute of the reaction/oxidation time, while at the same time, the concentration of carbamazepine was under the analytical method detection limit (0.025 μΜ).From the results of this study, it is obvious that, although calcite can be considered as a catalyst, its efficiency to improve the removal of different micropollutants mainly depends on the specific properties of the organic compounds applied and, in particular, on the pKa values and the respective rate constants with the oxidant agents.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, S.P., A.Z. and M.M.; methodology, S.P.; validation, S.P. and M.M.; investigation, S.P. and E.K.; resources, A.Z. and M.M.; data curation, S.P. and E.K.; writing, original draft preparation, S.P.; writing, review and editing, A.Z., M.M. and E.K.; visualization, S.P.; supervision, A.Z. and M.M.; project administration, A.Z.; funding acquisition, A.Z. All authors read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds through Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEACH-CREATE- INNOVATE (project code: T1EDK-02397).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Micropollutant degradation by simple ozonation: (a) ozone decomposition; (b) degradation of micropollutants (MPs); experimental conditions: CO3 = 2 mg/L, CMP = 4 μΜ, pH = 7, T = 23 ± 2 °C.
Figure 1. Micropollutant degradation by simple ozonation: (a) ozone decomposition; (b) degradation of micropollutants (MPs); experimental conditions: CO3 = 2 mg/L, CMP = 4 μΜ, pH = 7, T = 23 ± 2 °C.
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Figure 2. Micropollutant degradation by the application of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation, using calcite as the catalyst:(a) ozone decomposition; (b) degradation of MPs; experimental conditions: CO3 = 2 mg/L, CMP = 4 μΜ, Ccal = 0.5 g/L, pH = 7, T = 23 ± 2 °C.
Figure 2. Micropollutant degradation by the application of heterogeneous catalytic ozonation, using calcite as the catalyst:(a) ozone decomposition; (b) degradation of MPs; experimental conditions: CO3 = 2 mg/L, CMP = 4 μΜ, Ccal = 0.5 g/L, pH = 7, T = 23 ± 2 °C.
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Table 1. Mobile phase proportions for the micropollutant detection by HPLC.
Table 1. Mobile phase proportions for the micropollutant detection by HPLC.
Micropollutant10 mM H3PO4
(% v/v)
ACN
(% v/v)
Atrazine5050
Benzotriazole7525
Carbamazepine6040
p-CBA6040
Table 2. Micropollutants used in this study as model/typical compounds and their properties (information collected with the help of the software program Chemicalize).
Table 2. Micropollutants used in this study as model/typical compounds and their properties (information collected with the help of the software program Chemicalize).
MicropollutantStructureMWLog D at pH 8pKakO3 (M−1s−1)k•OH(M−1s−1)
Atrazine Environsciproc 02 00026 i001215.72.203.26[8]2.4×109 [16]
Benzotriazole Environsciproc 02 00026 i002119.11.219.0420[9]7.6×109 [16]
Carbamazepine Environsciproc 02 00026 i003236.32.77163×105 [10]8.8×109 [16]
p-CBA Environsciproc 02 00026 i004156.6−1.154.070.15[11]5×109 [16]
Table 3. Adsorption loading of micropollutants (C0 = 4 μΜ) onto calcite (Ccal = 0.5 g/L).
Table 3. Adsorption loading of micropollutants (C0 = 4 μΜ) onto calcite (Ccal = 0.5 g/L).
ParameterAtrazineBenzotriazoleCarbamazepinep-CBA
q (μg MP/g calcite)289.059.6104.055.3
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