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.