Biogenic palladium prepared by activated sludge microbes for the hexavalent chromium catalytic reduction: Impact of relative biomass

Highlights

• Pd nanoparticles could be reduced and supported by activated sludge microbes.

• The effect of biomass on Pd adsorption by microbes is greater than Pd reduction.

• More biomass reduces Pd particle size, which is more dispersed on the cell surface.

• When the biomass/Pd add to 6, the catalytic reduction rate of Cr(VI) reaches stable.

Abstract

Palladium, a kind of platinum group metal, owns catalytic capacity for a variety of hydrogenations. In this study, Pd nanoparticles (PdNPs) were generated through enzymatic recovery by microbes of activated sludge at various biomass/Pd, and further used for the Cr(VI) reduction. The results show that biomass had a strong adsorption capacity for Pd(II), which was 17.25 mg Pd/g sludge. The XRD and TEM-EDX results confirmed the existence of PdNPs associated with microbes (bio-Pd). The increase of biomass had little effect on the reduction rate of Pd(II), but it could cause decreasing particle size and shifting location of Pd(0) with the better dispersion degree on the cell surface. In the Cr(VI) reduction experiments, Cr(VI) was first adsorbed on bio-Pd with hydrogen and then reduced using active hydrogen as electron donor. Biomass improved the catalytic activity of PdNPs. When the biomass/Pd (w/w) ratio increased to six or higher, Cr(VI) reduction achieved maximum rate that 50 mg/L of Cr(VI) could be rapidly reduced in one minute.

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Keywords

Palladium nanoparticles / Activated sludge / Hexavalent chromium

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51678422) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 22120190017).

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