ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Activated Persulfate by Dielectric Barrier
Discharge Plasma for the Degradation
of Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine
as Wastewater Pollutants
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State Key Laboratory of Technologies in Space Cryogenic Propellants, Beijing Special Engineering Design
and Research Institute, Beijing 100028, China
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Center for Environmental Metrology, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100029, China
Submission date: 2022-12-07
Final revision date: 2023-01-16
Acceptance date: 2023-02-02
Online publication date: 2023-05-29
Publication date: 2023-06-23
Corresponding author
Zhi Zheng
State Key Laboratory of Technologies in Space Cryogenic Propellants, Beijing Special Engineering Design and Research Institute, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(4):3447-3454
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ABSTRACT
Releasing unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine (UDMH) in ambient medium is an escalating
environment crisis that catches aggrandizing public concerns. Herein, a non-thermal plasma activating
persulfate maneuver was introduced and its application mechanism in UDMH degradation was explored.
Oxidizing kinetic experiments show that 93.8% UDMH were eliminated along with 12.5 kV, pH = 8,
50 mM NaCl, Na2S2O8/UDMH (mol/mol) = 2, and 140 mL/min. The Visual MINTEQ simulated species
distribution of UDMH well predicted the oxidation behaviors of UDMH in the variation of pH. Radical
scavenging test integrated with UV-vis spectroscopy were introduced to identify the predominating
reactive oxygen species during UDMH decomposition. The ·OH and ·SO4- played a synergistic role in
the UDMH oxidization. Overall, this study may shed new lights on the degradation of UDMH industry
wastewater using hybrid technique.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.