Abstract
Hematin-catalysed decolourizations of alizarin red S solutions were carried out in order to validate a peroxidatic model in competition with pseudo-catalatic routes. Absorbance and dissolved oxygen were followed with time and hematin was used in solution or immobilized onto chitosan. Initial rates decreased with increasing dye concentration. Modelled dye concentration profiles properly reproduced experimental data. Optimized rate constants indicated that immobilization reduced hematin activity, emphasized dye inhibition and promoted the pseudo-catalatic pathway. The increase in H2O2 concentration increased oxygen evolution rates whereas the increase of dye concentration depleted them, which agree with the kinetic model proposal. These findings were also discussed considering some additional reactions which consume or evolve oxygen. UV–visible stack spectra of reacting systems allowed to propose some degradation products, whose molecular weights decreased with the increase of hydrogen peroxide to dye molar ratio. This is consistent with accumulation of inorganic radicalsproposed by the pseudo-catalatic mechanism.
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