Abstract
These days, the use of persulfate in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) has gained more attention as an emerging clean and efficient technology to degrade the organic pollutants. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the addition of persulfate on the oxidation of benzotriazole (BT) and humic acids (HAs) by irradiation. The degradation of BT (3.7 μM) was followed under the influence of persulfate addition (200–500 μM) in combination with a fixed radiation dose (15 Gy) in the absence and presence of HA (5 and 20 mg/L) in deionized water. The main results obtained in this study on the degradation of BT in the presence of HA showed a different effect of S 2O 8 2− addition during irradiation, depending on whether HA are oxidized or not-oxidized. (1) An inhibitory effect of S 2O 8 2− was observed in the presence of non-oxidized HA. (2) The removal of BT was generally more important during irradiation in the presence of S 2O 8 2− when HA is pre-oxidized. This could be explained by the different structures of humic acids. These differences of structures of HA were identified by physico-chemical parameters such as the absorbance in the UV (254 nm), the fluorescence and the SUVA measurement.
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