Degradation of Rhodamine B in aqueous solution by laser cavitation

•Laser cavitation (LC) technique is proposed for degrading organic dye wastewater.•Degradation of RhB aqueous solution is carried out in a self-designed LC setup.•Understanding into effect of laser energy, initial concentration, cavitation time.•Degradation kinetics and mechanism, energy efficiency...

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Published in:Ultrasonics sonochemistry 2020-11, Vol.68, p.105181-105181, Article 105181
Main Authors: Gu, Jiayang, Luo, Chunhui, Zhou, Wangfan, Tong, Zhaopeng, Zhang, Hongfeng, Zhang, Penghua, Ren, Xudong
Format: Article
Language:English
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Degradation mechanism
Energy efficiency
Laser cavitation
Rhodamine B
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Summary:•Laser cavitation (LC) technique is proposed for degrading organic dye wastewater.•Degradation of RhB aqueous solution is carried out in a self-designed LC setup.•Understanding into effect of laser energy, initial concentration, cavitation time.•Degradation kinetics and mechanism, energy efficiency of LC are analyzed. A novel method of laser cavitation (LC) was proposed for degrading organic dye wastewater. Rhodamine B (RhB) aqueous solution was employed as the simulated organic dye wastewater, and a LC system was designed to conduct the experiments of degrading RhB. The effects of laser energy, initial concentration and cavitation time on the degradation were investigated. Moreover, the degradation kinetics, degradation mechanism and energy efficiency were analyzed. The experimental results indicate that RhB aqueous solution can be degraded effectively by LC and the degradation follows the pseudo-first-order kinetics. The extent of degradation increases by 27.6% with the rise of laser energy (50–100 mJ) while it decreases by 7.8% with increasing the initial concentration from (20–40 mg/L), but RhB can not be degraded when exceeding 100 mg/L. The degradation extent of RhB at 100 mJ and 20 mg/L for 3 h is 81.11%, and the RhB solution is almost completely degraded at 150 mJ (98.4%). The degradation velocity of RhB rises firstly and then decreases as the cavitation time increases. The degradation of RhB by LC can be attributed to the N-de-ethylation and chromophore cleavage caused by oxidation of hydroxyl (OH) radical and thermal decomposition. LC has a higher energy efficiency compared with other methods and is more energy efficient at lower laser energy.
ISSN:1350-4177
1873-2828
DOI:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105181