Comparing atrazine and cyanuric acid electro-oxidation on mixed oxide and boron-doped diamond electrodes

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1043-1051

  Malpass, Geoffroy R P ^a,b   Salazar Banda, Giancarlo R ^a,c   Miwa, Douglas W ^a   Machado, Sérgio A S ^a   Motheo, Artur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

^c TIRADENTES UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

atrazine; boron doped diamond; cyanuric acid; dimensionally stable anode; electrochemical degradation

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIAMONDS; ELECTROLYTES; HERBICIDES; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BORON DOPED DIAMOND; BORON-DOPED DIAMOND ELECTRODES; CYANURIC ACIDS; DIMENSIONALLY STABLE ANODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; SUPPORTING ELECTROLYTE;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

ATRAZINE; BORON; CYANURIC ACID; ELECTROLYTE; OXIDE;

ATRAZINE; BORON; DEGRADATION; DIAMOND; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; ELECTROLYTE; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC ACID; OXIDE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SULFATE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

EID: 84877141952     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2012.733420     Document Type: Article

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