DEGRADATION OF BENZALDEHYDE IN AQUEOUS MEDIA BY CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY TECHNIQUEJASVINDER KAUR, RAJDEEP MALIK AND DUSHYANT GANGWARAbstract Benzaldehyde has been used as a precursor in various industrial products such as Medicines, cosmetic, fragrance, dye etc. Released effluents from these industries contaminate water. It is an environmental concern that the degradation of these products is necessitated. In this work, electrochemical degradation of benzaldehyde was investigated in aqueous medium at different scan rate on a platinum electrode by using environment friendly, cyclic voltammetry technique. Also, Evaluate the Kinetic and electrochemical parameters such as standard heterogeneous rate constant (ko, 2.5857 à 10³s-1) anodic electron transfer rate constant (kox, 2.8398 à 10³s-1) electron transfer coefficient of reaction (ï¡,0.426) and formal potential (E0, 1.0392 V), and linearity under the influence of scan rate. |