Pulsed Electric Discharge in Active Metallic Grains for Water Purification Processes

Abstract

Chemical reactions in electric metal pulse dispersion in the aqueous solutions of inorganic substance (НSiO[3]{–}, Ni{2+}, Н[2]AsO[4]{–}, Mn{2+}, Cr[2]O[7]{2–}) were determined through IR spectroscopy, X-ray phase, chemical, kinetic, and thermodynamic analyses. Under such conditions, both reduction and oxidation reactions occur, as well as, locally initiated by heating, hydrolysis and exchange reactions without changing the oxidation rate of the dissolved substance itself. Reduction and oxidation of dissolved substances is determined by the generation and activation of high dispersed Fe in an electric discharge. Physical and chemical processes which take place under the action of pulse electric discharges upon the layer of metallic grains in salt solution, containing НSiO[3]{–}, Ni{2+}, Н[2]AsO[4]{–}, Mn{2+}, Cr[2]O[7]{2–} ions were determined on the basis of product composition, obtained experimentally and the thermodynamic data. It was shown, that PED discharge in heterogeneous mediums can be used for waste and natural water purification.