Accelerated catalytic oxidation of dissolved manganese(II) by chlorine in the presence of in situ-growing 3D manganese(III)/(IV) oxide nanosheet assembly in zeolite filter.

Manganese contamination is ubiquitous in ground water. Water eutrophication also exaggerates manganese release and contamination in surface water. However, conventional manganese(II) removal process through sand filter is low-efficiency and long-term ripening. Manganese exceeding standard is still a bottleneck issue for drinking water plants. To provide a quick-setup and low-cost means, we invented an accelerated catalytic oxidation filtration process through porous zeolite filter with dynamically coating of manganese oxide nanocatalysts. In dynamic filtration process, the addition of chlorine less than redox stoichiometric consumption can efficiently remove dissolved manganese(II) from contaminated tap water, ground water and Songhua river water. Characterization results showed that a continuous manganese(III)/(IV) oxide nanosheet catalyst was dynamically in situ-growing and assembled into 3D porous superstructure in the reactive Zeolite@MnO(s) filter. Active Mn(III) species on the edges of MnO(s) nanosheets were dynamically generated and transferred into stable Mn(IV) species on the layer-structured surface. The cycling transformation of manganese(III)/(IV) species was responsible for the accelerated catalytic oxidation of dissolved manganese(II) by chlorine. Without process changes in drinking water plant, the porous Zeolite@MnO(s) media could be feasibly integrated onto the existing sand filtration tanks for emergence handling of manganese(II) contamination. This novel reactive Zeolite@MnO(s) filter with higher hydraulic conductivity provides a high-efficiency, scalable and low-cost technique for the manganese(II) removal from various of water environments.