Electrochemical reduction of nitrate using various anodes and a Cu/Zn cathode |
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| Authors: | Miao Li Chuanping Feng Zhenya Zhang Zhaoli Shen Norio Sugiura |
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| Affiliation: | aSchool of Water Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;bDoctoral Program in Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Electrochemical reduction of nitrate was studied using a Cu/Zn cathode and Ti/Pt, Ti/IrO2–Pt and Ti/RuO2–Pt anodes in an undivided and unbuffered cell. A novel condition for performing both cathodic reduction of nitrate and anodic oxidation of the ammonia and nitrite by-products was achieved using Ti/Pt and Ti/IrO2–Pt anodes in the presence of NaCl, especially with Ti/IrO2–Pt anode. Nitrate could be completely removed using the Ti/IrO2–Pt and Ti/Pt anode, with neither ammonia nor nitrite detected in the treated solution. A low nitrate reduction rate was observed when using a Ti/RuO2–Pt anode in the presence of NaCl. However, in the absence of NaCl, all anodes showed good performance for nitrate reduction, with the Ti/Pt anode having the highest selectivity for reducing nitrate to nitrogen. |
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| Keywords: | Electrochemical reduction Nitrate Anodes Sodium chloride |
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