Waste Management 2009-12-01

Dechlorination/detoxification of aromatic chlorides using fly ash under mild conditions.

Abdul Ghaffar, Masaaki Tabata, Abdul Ghaffar, Masaaki Tabata, Abdul Ghaffar, Masaaki Tabata

Index: Waste Manag. 29(12) , 3004-8, (2009)

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Abstract

An efficient dechlorination/detroxification method for p-nitrochlorobenzene, p-chloroanisole and 1-chloronaphthalene on municipal waste incinerator fly ash in presence of reducing agents with water/alcohol mixtures was developed. Dechlorination% was higher in water/isopropanol mixture at temperature <100 degrees C. Metal contents of fly ash played a vital role in enhancing dechlorination at low temperature. Moreover, the fly ash particles provided the surface to accomplish reduction and substitution reactions by adsorbing the chlorinated aromatic compound, hydrogen and hydroxyl ions. The mechanism of dechlorination was envisaged.