Abstract
Purpose
Bisphenol A (BPA), as endocrine-disrupting compound (EDC), is extensively used as an important chemical in the synthesis of polycarbonate polymers and epoxy resins. BPA absorption into the body can result in the development of metabolic disorders such as low sex-specific neurodevelopment, immune toxicity, neurotoxicity and interference of cellular pathway. Therefore, the presence of BPA in the body and the environment can create hazards that must reach standards before being discharged into the environment.
Methods
In this study, bismuth ferric nanomagnetic (BFO NMPs) were successfully synthesized via sol-gel method and developed as photocatalysts for BPA removal under visible light irradiation. FE-SEM, TEM, PL, XRD, UV-Vis DRS, VSM, EDX, and FTIR were used to characterize the BFO NMPs.
Results
RSM model (R2 = 0.9745) showed a good correlation between experimental and predicted removal efficiency of BPA. The investigation of four independent variables indicated that pH had the most significant positive effect on the degradation of BPA. Under optimal conditions (pH = 4.042, catalyst dose = 7.617 mg, contact time = 122.742 min and BPA concentration = 15.065 mg/L), maximum degradation was calculated to be 98.7%. After five recycles, the removal of BPA remained >82%, which indicated the proper ability to reuse the catalyst.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be stated like BPA, the prepared BFO NMPs is a promising photocatalyst for practical application in organic pollutant decomposition.
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Introduction
Phenol is formed by a hydroxyl group attached to benzene ring. Bisphenol A (BPA), by a condensation reaction synthesized, in acidic condition from phenol and acetone [1,2,3,4,5]. BPA, an endocrine-disrupting compound (EDC), is extensively used as an important chemical in the synthesis of polycarbonate polymers and epoxy resins [6, 7]. A variety of chemicals with structural or functional similarity to BPA have been identified in foodstuffs [8]. Corpuscular function could disrupt even at very low concentration (0.23 ng/l) of BPA, leading to a wide spectrum of harmful health effects. However, BPA is able to easily leak into the human body [9]. A study found that 92% of participants were detected BPA in their urine [10] and less values in human biological specimens [11]. However, it is expected there is a poor understanding of the potential toxicity of the most BPA analogues. Some studies showed an association between BPA analogues and fasting blood glucose, diabetes, or insulin resistance [11, 12]. These compounds result in reproductive and sexual abnormalities such as hormone-dependent cancers, sperm counts decline in males and reduction in reproductive fitness [6, 13, 14]. Annually, three million tons of BPA are produced in the world. It is frequently found in all of environmental matrix including air, water and soil because of the massive amount of its utilization and high persistency [14]. Fortunately, due to the small bioconcentration factor and octanol-water partition coefficient, BPA has a small potential for bioaccumulation. However, BPA seems to be biodegradable only by a small number of microorganisms [15]. Consequently, leaching processes which are decomposed BPA derived from various industrial can reach surface and groundwater and contaminate them [9]. However, BPA is slightly soluble in water (120–300 mg/l at 25 °C) and is usually released in the discharge from construction units using BPA based products. The half-life of BPA in surface and ground water is estimated to be 1–150 and 2–360 days, respectively [15]. BPA does not exist freely in nature and undergoes photo-oxidation with a half-life about 0.2 days in air [15]. Therefore, there is an increasing interest to find adequate and affordable technologies for removal and degradation of BPA from water body [16]. Existing conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are not able to treat effectively persistent compounds such as BPA [6, 17, 18]. Thus, many researchers have conducted studies on the development of effective and sustainable treatment methods in order to set a barrier to the release of emerging contaminants such as BPA into the environment [17, 19,20,21,22].
Nowadays photocatalysis-based methods are a promising technology due to their high efficiency, complete pollutants mineralization to CO2, simplicity of operation and low cost [23]. In photocatalytic oxidation processes, an electron is rejected from the valence band (VB) to the conduction band (CB) of the semiconductor under UV or visible radiation and produces highly reactive spices mainly hydroxyl radicals (OH*) which are then attack the organic pollutants and are eventually mineralized into CO2 and inorganic anions [6, 13, 16]. To date, photocatalysts such as TiO2, SnO2, and ZnO have been extensively used as efficient materials for solving environmental and energy problems because of their efficient photocatalytic degradation, high chemical stability, and nontoxicity [24,25,26,27]. However, among the main drawbacks are their large bang gap which absorb only 5% sunlight in the ultraviolet region and rapid recombination of electron-hole pairs [14, 23, 27, 28]. BPA is not sensitive to hydrolysis but if not bound to organic matters, it has a potential to photolysis in water [15]. As a result, it is very essential to synthesis and develops new photocatalyst materials with strong absorbance in visible light region. Currently, by optimizing the conditions and using semiconductors in photocatalytic processes, conversion of organic compounds to water and carbon dioxide has become possible.
Recently, a new photocatalyst, perovskite bismuth ferric (BFO) exhibited high photocatalytic activities under visible light irradiation for water splitting and degradation of organics because of its narrow band gap, excellent chemical stability, ferroelectric, and ferromagnetic properties [27,28,29,30]. In addition, optimization of influential variables using statistical experimental design mainly Response Surface Method (RSM) has received plentiful attention in environmental applications because of predicting combined effects of independent variables on response at the time and lower number of experiments [23, 31,32,33]. The present study will examine model and optimize the removal of BPA with a BFO catalyst synthesized by sol-gel method. So far, very few studies have examined this issue, and almost no study has examined the modeling and optimization BPA removal conditions with this catalyst. It is hoped that the current study will yield very good results in the system under study condition. As such, in this study, BFO NMPs photocatalyst with a particle diameter less than 100 nm is synthesized by sol-gel method and its photocatalytic activity will be investigated in the degradation of BPA under visible light irradiation. The studied variables include pH, photocatalyst concentration, BPA initial concentration, and reaction time. Four-factor Central Composite Design (CCD) based with Response Surface Method (RSM) would be used to optimize the response as photodegradation percentage of BPA using BFO NMPs.
Materials and methods
Chemicals
All the chemical and reagents were of analytical grade and used in the current study without any further purification. Bismuth nitrate ((Bi(NO3)3.5H2O), ≥98%), iron nitrate ((Fe(NO3)3.9H2O), >98%), acetic acid (glacial ≥99%), and Hydrochloric acid (HCl, 35–37%) were provided by Sigma Aldrich company (St. Louis, MO, USA). Sulfuric acid (H2SO4, 98%) and bisphenol A were prepared by Merck Company (Darmstadt, Germany). Double distillated water was used for preparation of all samples (18.2 MΩ cm).
Preparation of BFO NMPs
Firstly, 0.016 mol of Bi (NO3)3.5H2O was dispersed in ethylene glycol in an ultrasonic bath. To form a clear, homogenous solution was sonicated for 2 min at a temperature of 25 °C. In order to obtain a brownish red sol, a stoichiometric amount of Fe (NO3)3.9H2O was added to above solution and sonicated for another 10 min at the same temperature. After that, the prepared solution was kept in the oven at a temperature of 60 °C for 24 h to form a xerogel. Eventually, xerogel powder was calcinated at 500 °C for 0.5 h at a heating rate of 6 °C/min to obtain BFO NMPs [34].
BFO NMPs characterization
Crystalline structure of BFO NMPs was studied using X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD. Rigaku, step size 0.02°, scan speed 4°/min) with Cu-Kα as source radiation at a wavelength 0.154 nm. The Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) PHILIPS, CM30 Netherlands, V = 200KV. The Fourier transform infrared spectra (FTIR) was taken using KBr as a reference material within the range of 400–4000 cm−1 with a resolution of 4 cm−1 and 16 scans (Beijing, Rayleigh WQF-510A). The surface morphology of prepared BFO NMPs samples was surveyed by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM, FEI Nova NanoSEM® 450; EDX, Bruker Xflash® 6│10). AvaSpec spectrophotometer (Avantes AvaSpec 2048 TEC) was used to measure UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) by using BaSO4 as a reference material. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of BFO NMPs samples were recorded on Agilent G9800A Cary Eclipse Fluorescence Spectrophotometer. Magnetic properties of the BFO NMPs were determined using vibrating specimen magnetometer (VSM, Varian, V-7300 Series 12).
Photocatalysis process
BPA was selected to assess the photocatalytic activity of BFO NMPs under visible light radiation. All examinations were conducted at room pressure and temperature (25 ± 1 °C). Photochemical test was performed in 50 mL Erlenmeyer flask using a 25 W white LED lamp (contains five LED lamps) as visible light source. Photocatalytic experiments were done in 25 mL solutions with predetermined independent parameters under magnetic stirrer at a speed of 350 rpm. The suspension of BFO NMPs was kept in dark for half an hour to reach adsorption-desorption equilibrium before light illumination for each experiment. At the end of each experiment, suspension was centrifuged at a speed of 8000 rpm for 10 min. Initial and residual concentration of BPA at supernatant was measured by spectrophotometer at wavelength of 277 nm. Removal efficiency of BPA was calculated with Eq. (1) [27, 35]:
where C0 and C are initial and final concentration of the BPA solution, respectively.
Experimental design
Optimization of the process variables and their interactions in this study was performed using RSM. RSM is a particular set of mathematical and statistical methods that are used to design experiments, build models, evaluate the effects of variables, determine the optimum amount of variables for predicting targeted responses, improve the performance of parameters, and decrease the inaccuracy of experiments [31, 32]. CCD is the most commonly used class of second-order designs under RSM [23, 36]. Such a design has been abundantly applied for removal of many pollutants with photocatalysis process [37,38,39,40,41,42]. For n independent variables, the number of experiments in CCD was predicted using following equation:
Where, 2n, 2n and nc are factorial runs, axial runs and center runs, respectively. In the present study, N = 24 + 2 × 4 + 6 = 30. A five level CCD and range of independent variables suggested by Design Expert V11.1.1.0 software (Stat Soft Inc., Tulsa, USA) are shown in Table 1. A quadratic equation model was used to optimize the process variables as follow:
Where, y is the response variable (BPA removal, %), xi and xj are the independent variables (initial BPA concentration, solution pH, adsorbent dose, and reaction time) known for each run, b0 is the model constant; bi is the linear coefficient, bii is the quadratic coefficient, and bij is the interaction coefficient. The value of alpha coefficient was selected to be 2.
Results and discussion
BFO NMPs characteristics
The FE-SEM Fig. 1(a and b) revealed that BFO NMPs has smooth, regularly spherical crystals and particle size of BFO NMPs which is relatively uniform [43, 44]. TEM micrographs (fig. 1c and d) of BFO are shown in zoom in as 500 nm and 50 nm. These Nano magnetic particles consist of nearly round shape particles ranging from 50 to 100 nm, which is consistent with the FESEM of perovskite-phase BFO and XRD calculations, as shown in fig. 1a and b. According to Fig. 1b, it can be seen that the magnetism of the particles has caused the small particles to stick together and agglomerate. Photoluminescence spectra were employed to investigate the recombination rate of photoinduced electrons and holes pair as shown in Fig. 1(e). BFO NMPs sample has intensive peak at 469 nm, which indicates the high rate of electron-hole recombination leading to low photocatalytic activity [23, 27]. Figure 1(d) shows the XRD patterns of BFO NMPs samples. The diffraction peaks at 2Ө values of 22.4°(101), 31.08°(110), 37.8°(004), 39.49°(202), 45.79°(200), 51.58°(105) and 56.98°(211), clearly showed the phase of BFO NMPs [43]. Sharp and strong peaks implied that the BFO NMPs sample has high crystallinity [23]. The presence of peak-splitting in XRD pattern reveals rhombohedral, consistent and ceramic structure of BFO NMPs [44, 45]. The Scherer equation used to calculate the average of crystalline size (Eq. (4)).
Where, τ is the medium size of crystallite as nm, K is the crystalline shape coefficient (between 0.62 to 2.08), λ is the X-ray tube Wavelength, β is the FWHM, and θ is the X-ray diffraction angle. It should be mentioned that particle sizes calculated by XRD analyses are commonly smaller than those found by TEM.
UV–Vis Diffuse Reflectance Spectrum (UV-Vis DRS) of synthesized BFO NMPs is shown in Fig. 2(a). It can be seen that BFO NMPs absorb light in the range of 300–800 nm. Absorption edge of BFO NMPs was obtained by drawing a tangent line on the adsorption curve [23, 46] and found to be 600 nm, implying that the BFO NMPs material can absorb visible light in the wavelength range of 400–600 nm. The energy band gap of indirect semiconductor can be calculated by Eq. (5) [43, 47]:
where Eg(eV) is the band gap and, λ is the wavelength of optical adsorption edge (nm). As a result, the energy band gap of BFO NMPs sample was found to be 2.07 eV. In this study, the band-gap energy of BFO NMPs was smaller than those reported by other authors [44, 46, 48, 49].
VSM analysis was performed for BFO NMPs at room temperature using a vibrating magnetometer (Fig. 2(b)). This analysis was carried out on a magnetic field of ±10 H (KG) and in a saturation magnetization range of ±10 emu/g. The results showed that the maximum saturation magnetization for the BFO NMPs was equal to 5.8 emu/g. These results clearly demonstrated the appropriate magnetic property of the synthesized BFO NMPs. Figure 2(c) shows the Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy of BFO NMPs. The major elements in BFO NMPs sample were Bi, Fe and O with the weight percentage of 61, 21.66 and 12.35 eV, respectively.
Figure 2(d) shows the FTIR spectra of BFO MNPs. As is shown here, seven peaks appeared for BFO NMPs of which five peaks are weak, one of them is sharp and another one is wide peak, which are assigned to the Fe-O, Bi-O and O-H stretching vibration mode. Therefore, IR peaks less than 1000 cm−1 such as 815, 560 and 439 are related to the vibrations bands of Fe-O and Bi-O, respectively.
Modeling and statistical analysis
The designed experiments suggested by CCD were performed as shown in Table 2. Then, the results of each experiment as response were entered into the software and analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA). A quadratic model was developed to predict response values (BPA removal) as Eq. (6):
The results of ANOVA for BPA removal at significance level < 0.05 are shown in Table 3. Besidep value, coefficient of determination (R2) and lack of fit were selected to judge on ability of the model to predict response values [23, 32, 50, 51]. According to ANOVA results, the linear effect of terms X1, X2, X3, X4, the interaction effect of terms X2X3 and X2X4, and quadratic effect of terms X12, X32 and X42 were found to be significant. Among process variables, pH (X2) and contact time (X1) had the most negative and positive effect on response variable, respectively. This means that when pH variable increases, PBA removal decreases and with the increase of contact time, BPA removal increases as well. The R2 value of 0.9745 and p value<0.0001 show that the second-order regression model obtained for BPA photocatalytic degradation using BFO NMPs is well-satisfied. The predicted R2 of 0.88 is in reasonable agreement with the adjusted R2 0.95 (the difference is less than 0.2).
Effect of independent variables on photocatalytic degradation of BFO NMPs
Figure 3(a) shows the combined effect of contact time and BPA concentration at constant values of pH = 7 and catalyst dosage = 15 g/100 L. It can be seen that with increasing contact time from 35 to 95 min, removal efficiency increased from 34 to 52.7%. Figure 3(b) suggests that removal efficiency decreases with increasing BPA concentration from 20 to 50 mg/L. This can be related to decreasing the number of available reactive sites and saturation of them on BFO NMPs as well as decreasing path length of the photons entering the solution [52, 53]. Solution pH is one of the main influential parameters in adsorption and photocatalytic processes because of protonation/deprotonation of pollutants and catalyst surface [23, 28, 52, 53]. According to Fig.3(c), maximum removal of BPA was observed at lower pH of solution based on previous studies [54] . With increasing pH from 5 to 9, removal percentage decreased from 53 to 12%. At low pH, positive holes are responsible as the major oxidation species, whereas in neutral or high pH, hydroxyl radicals are the predominant species [28]. Furthermore, under basic conditions, the BFO MNPs surface becomes negatively charged that leads to a repulsing of the negatively charged BPA molecules. In the present study, the throughout degradation rate increased with decreasing pH with optimum at pH = 5. The photocatalyst dosage is another important parameter in photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants [28, 52]. In this study, photocatalyst dosage was found to be in the range of 5 to 25 g/100 mL. As expected, at constant values of initial BPA concentration 35 mg/L and contact time 65 min, an increase was observed in removal efficiency of BPA with increasing photocatalyst dosage from 10 to 20 g/100 L. This originated from higher number of active sites on the photocatalyst and consequently increased the absorption of the number of BPA molecules and photons [23, 28, 52, 53]. Almost all catalysts are able to provide sites for generating free radicals that promote the reaction.
Process optimization and model validity
To optimize the BPA removal, all the parameters were evaluated in the range as shown in Table 2, while the response (degradation percentage) was selected at the maximum value. The outcome of the model indicates that the maximum efficiency (100%) is obtained at pH = 4.042, catalyst dose = 7.617 g/100 mL, contact time = 122.742 min and BPA concentration = 15.065 mg/L. In order to validate the accuracy of the optimization model, a study on photocatalytic degradation of BPA was conducted in the batch reactor under optimum conditions. The experimental value of photocatalytic degradation test was found to be 98.7%, which is very close to the predicted value (100%). Hence, the optimum conditions suggested by RSM are valid and RSM is a good tool to optimize photocatalytic degradation process of BPA using BFO NMPs.
Kinetic studies
Figure 4 shows the dynamic model of BPA degradation by BFO NMPs. As mentioned earlier, the calculation of kinetics experiment in photocatalytic-oxidation process was performed in optimal condition. The correlation coefficients (R2) of different kinetic including zero order, first order and second order are presented in Fig.4a–c. The results showed that the BPA degradation correlation coefficient is fitted to first-order model better than other one with R2 > 0.984 (y = −0.0281x + 2.3939). This suggests that 1st model best defines the experimental data from BPA degradation, hence recommending the high capability of model to fit the data gained from BPA degradation in the photocatalytic process.
Mineralization and reusability
TOC analyses were performed to determine the mineralization degree of BPA by BFO NMPs under optimized conditions (Fig. 5a). BPA degradation efficiency was found to be 98.7%, but the amount of TOC decreased by 87% after reaction. This phenomenon can be ascribed to the fact that the consumption of free radicals by BPA and other products resulting from degradation led to the removal of TOC less than the degradation efficiency (%) of BPA under the same experimental conditions.
The visible light photocatalytic stability of the BFO NMPs was investigated by recycling photodegradation experiments under optimized conditions for 5 cycles. After every cycle, the photocatalyst was separated by external magnet, then dried at 60 °C for 10 h and then reused in the next cycle. The degradation efficiencies of BFA for different cycles after visible light irradiation is displayed in Fig.5b. the Figure shows that the photodegradation efficiency decreases slightly with the increment of cycles and is still over 82% of that for the first cycling run at the fifth cycle, indicating that the visible light photocatalytic stability of the investigated nanocomposites is well. Meanwhile, a small amount of bismuth and iron leaching from BFO was observed (ranging from 0.01 to 0.005 mg/L for Bi and 0.158 to 0.11 mg/L for Fe) during 5 reuse cycles, suggesting good stability of catalyst (Fig. 5c). The high stability of the nanoparticles can be attributed to its metal- oxide structure.
Comparison with previous studies
The efficacy of the proposed systems in terms of BPA degradation efficiency was compared with the obtained results from previous studies over the last decade. Table 4 presents a summary of the findings. It can be clearly found that the BFO + UV system has a higher degradation capacity than the other methods. On the other hand, the optimum dose and time have a lower value than the majority of studies conducted so far. Based on the evidence, it can be reported that BFO MNPs with radiation visible light system has a good ability to remove BPA and can be used promisingly in the treatment (oxidation) of pollutants.
Degradation mechanism
Based on studies by Jiao [63], Nguyen [64] and Zhu [65] et al., the degradation intermediates were identified by GC-MS analysis and five main aromatic intermediates were determined including 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1-propanol (m/z 230), 4-hydroxybenzoate (m/z 138), 4-hydroxyacetophenone (m/z 136), formic acid (m/z 46) and acetic acid (m/z 60). The BPA photocatalytic degradation mechanism can be supposed as follows; firstly, both photogenerated holes and hydroxyl radicals attack quaternary carbon atoms in BPA, resulting in the formation 2,2-bis(4- hydroxyphenyl)-1-propanol. Secondly, the covalent band between C–C bond of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1-propanol maybe attacked by hydroxyl radicals or via C-C scission reaction, which leads to the production of 4-hydroxyacetophenone and 4-hydroxybenzoate. Moreover, these intermediates compound could be oxidized to acetic acids and formic acids. Ultimately, the aromatic intermediates were degraded into ring-opening (branch chain) compounds and then sebsequently mineralized into H2O and CO2, resulting in the reduction of TOC concentration. Based on the identified intermediate products, a possible degradation pathway of BPA by BFO MNPs under visible light was proposed primarily (Fig. 6).
Conclusions
In the present study, BFO MNPs was synthesized and was successfully developed for BPA treatment from queues solution. A multi-response optimization based on CCD approach was applied to predict and optimize the effect of pH, contact time, catalyst dosage and BPA concentration on BPA removal. The results of ANOVA test revealed that the effect of main parameters on the performance of the BPA removal was significant with Prob > F < = 0.05. The Fmodel = 40.87 and P-values = 0.0001 show that model terms have significant effect on degradation process. The higher predicted degradation efficiency (100%) is obtained at pH = 4.042, catalyst dose = 7.617 mg, contact time = 122.742 min and BPA concentration = 15.065 mg/L. Reusability of BFO NMPs for 5 successive cycles showed a decrease in efficiency about 18%. As a result, the findings in this paper indicated that BFO MNPs visible light iradation could be used as an efficient method for decreasing BPA compound from aqueous solution.
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This study was funded by Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Institute for Environmental Research with research code of 96-03-46-36266. Hence, the authors would like to express their gratitude for this support.
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Mahmoudian, M.H., Mesdaghinia, A., Mahvi, A.H. et al. Photocatalytic degradation of bisphenol a from aqueous solution using bismuth ferric magnetic nanoparticle: synthesis, characterization and response surface methodology-central composite design modeling. J Environ Health Sci Engineer 20, 617–628 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40201-021-00762-2
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