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Hydrodechlorination of Aroclor 1260 in Aqueous Two-phase Mixture Catalyzed by Biogenerated Bimetallic Catalysts

Franco Baldi, Michele Gallo, Stefano Paganelli, Riccardo Tassini, Laura Sperni, Oreste Piccolo, Stefano Zambon, Rossano Piazza, Marta Maria Natile, Lidia Armelao

International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry · pp. 1–9 · Published 16 Mar 2016

10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/25136

Abstract

The PCBs are known recalcitrant and toxic pollutants and significant values of contamination could be found in water. PCBs can be hydrodechlorinated using Pd-based catalysts and hydrogen, but the research to identify more efficient heterogeneous catalysts, able to work in an aqueous phase, less sensible to deactivation and easily removable at the end of the treatment, remains a considerable interesting goal. A strain of Klebsiella oxytoca, DSM 29614, known to produce a specific exopolysaccaride (EPS), was grown in different media with sodium citrate or with sodium citrate plus ferric citrate, as sole energy and carbon sources under anaerobic conditions. The cultures were amended with 50 mg of palladium as Pd(NO3)2 to generate  Pd-EPS (Pd content 13%) or FePd-EPS (Pd content 8.4%; Fe 7.4%) species which were secreted from the cells, isolated by treatment with a cold ethanol solution (70%) and dried under vacuum as powders. The catalytic ability of these mono- and bi-metallic species was tested in the hydrodechlorination reaction of the Aroclor 1260 PCBs mixture under aqueous biphasic conditions. Here we demonstrate that the degree of PCBs hydrodechlorination is dependent by the nature of catalyst and of base used to neutralize HCl produced, the bimetallic species being more active and an organic base resulting more effective.  Working with a  substrate/catalyst  8/1  molar ratio, at 3 MPa H2 and 60°C in 20 h a significant  removal of highly chlorinated PCBs was obtained under the best conditions. The result seems promising for remediation of groundwater contaminated with PCBs.  

PCBs Klebsiella oxytoca biogenerated catalyst bi-metallic polysaccharide FePd-EPS aqueous hydrodechlorination

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