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Radiation degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls

  • 1. Institute of Nuclear and Physical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 81219, Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • 2. Institute of Nuclear and Physical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 81219, Bratislava and University Centre of Electron Accelerators, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, 91106, Trencin (Slovakia)
  • 3. University Centre of Electron Accelerators, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, 91106, Trencin (Slovakia)
  • 4. EVPU Ltd., 01851 Nova Dubnica (Slovakia)
  • 5. Department of Toxic Organic Pollutants, Faculty of Medicine, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, 83303 Bratislava (Slovakia)

Description

This study was based on the fact that the situation with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Slovakia is alarming. The effect of irradiation on PCBs is well known, but it is crucial to select appropriate co-solvent. We assume that a more suitable co-solvent can provide more effective conversion of PCBs (>90 %). Our results shown that CuSO4·5 H2O provide 64 % conversion of PCBs. CuSO4·5 H2O behaves as a water scavenger, but the ideal co-solvent should easily transfer H- anion to replace Cl- anions in PCBs. (authors)

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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applied Physics of Condensed Matter (APCOM 2016)

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Slovak University of Technology
Imprint Place
Bratislava (Slovakia)
ISBN
978-80-227-4572-7
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applied Physics of Condensed Matter (APCOM 2016)
Imprint Pagination
366 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 80-83
Report number
INIS-SK--2018-014

Conference

Title
22. International Conference on Applied Physics of Condensed Matter
Acronym
APCOM 2016
Dates
22-24 Jun 2016
Place
Strbske Pleso (Slovakia)

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Grants APVV-0321-11; VEGA-2/0152/16
Notes
3 figs., 4 refs. Imprint:Published also on CDROM 44 MBytes in PDF format