Yaobin Ding

Publications (3)6.14 Total impact

• Article: Spectrophotometric determination of persulfate by oxidative decolorization of azo dyes for wastewater treatment.

  Yaobin Ding, Lihua Zhu, Jingchun Yan, Qingqing Xiang, Heqing Tang
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  ABSTRACT: Persulfate can efficiently decolorize azo dyes through oxidizing these compounds, which enabled us to develop a method of rapid spectrophotometric determination of persulfate for monitoring the wastewater treatment on the basis of the oxidation decolorization of azo dyes. Four azo dyes with different molecular structures were investigated as probes, and the influences of operation parameters including reaction time, solution pH, initial dye concentration, and initial concentration of activator Fe(2+) were checked on the determination of persulfate. Under optimum conditions, the decolorization degree of the dyes responded linearly with persulfate concentration for all the four azo dyes, and the linear range and detection limit were found to be 2.0-150 μmol L(-1) and 0.62 μmol L(-1) for rhodamine B, 2.0-100 μmol L(-1) and 0.42 μmol L(-1) for methylene blue, 4.0-150 μmol L(-1) and 0.50 μmol L(-1) for methyl violet, and 20-150 μmol L(-1) and 8.1 μmol L(-1) for orange II. A persulfate treatment of a spiked wastewater sample was satisfactorily monitored with the new method.
  Journal of Environmental Monitoring 09/2011; 13(11):3057-63. · 1.99 Impact Factor
• Article: Photoelectrochemical activity of liquid phase deposited TiO2 film for degradation of benzotriazole.

  Yaobin Ding, Changzhu Yang, Lihua Zhu, Jingdong Zhang
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  ABSTRACT: TiO(2) film deposited on glassy carbon electrode surface was prepared via the liquid phase deposition (LPD). The deposited TiO(2) film before and after calcination was characterized with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Based on the high photoelectrochemical activity of calcined LPD TiO(2) film, the photoelectrocatalytic degradation of benzotriazole (BTA) was investigated. Compared with the electrochemical oxidation process, direct photolysis or photocatalysis for treatment of BTA, a synergetic photoelectrocatalytic degradation effect was observed using the LPD TiO(2) film-coated electrode. Various factors influencing the photoelectrocatalytic degradation of BTA such as film calcination, applied bias potential, pH value, supporting electrolyte concentration and initial concentration of BTA were investigated. The COD removal for BTA solution was analyzed to evaluate the mineralization of the PEC process. Based on the degradation experimental results, a possible photoelectrocatalytic degradation mechanism for BTA was proposed.
  Journal of hazardous materials 09/2009; 175(1-3):96-103. · 4.14 Impact Factor
• Article: Preparation and photoelectrocatalytic properties of titania/carbon nanotube composite films

  Guodong Jiang, Zhifen Lin, Lihua Zhu, Yaobin Ding, Heqing Tang
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  ABSTRACT: Composite films of TiO2 and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were prepared on titanium sheets by liquid phase deposition and the photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) properties of the films were investigated through the degradation of methyl orange (MO) in 0.1 M solutions. It was demonstrated that CNTs in the TiO2 film significantly decreased the charge transfer resistance and increased the anodic photocurrent response of the film under UV light irradiation when the bias was above −0.1 V. The PEC performance of the CNT-based composite film could be tuned by controlling the preparation parameters including the deposition time and calcination temperature. The deposition time and calcination temperature were optimized at 1 h and 450 °C, respectively. On the TiO2/CNT film prepared under the optimized conditions, 95% of the added MO (10 mg L−1) was degraded within 90 min, which was much higher than the 60% removal seen on the pure TiO2 films.
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