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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages 5204-5211Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3686-x
Keywords
Triclocarban; Photolysis; Degradation kinetics; Photolysis pathway
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21077069, 21007035]
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The photolysis of the antimicrobial triclocarban (TCC) in aqueous systems under simulated sunlight irradiation was studied. The effects of several abiotic parameters, including solution pH, initial TCC concentration, presence of natural organic matter, and most common inorganic anions in surface waters, were investigated. The results show that the photolysis of TCC followed pseudo-first-order kinetics. The TCC photolysis rate constant increased with increasing solution pH and decreasing the initial TCC concentration. Compared with the TCC photolysis in pure water, the presence of aqueous bicarbonate, nitrate, humic acids, and its sodium salt decreased the TCC photolysis rate, but fulvic acid increased the TCC photolysis rate. The electron spin resonance and reactive oxygen species scavenging experiments indicated that TCC may undergo two different types of phototransformation reactions: direct photolysis and energy transfer to generate O-1(2). The main degradation products were tentatively identified by gas chromatography interfaced with mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and a possible degradation pathway was also proposed.
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