Photocatalytic treatment of a synthetic wastewater

Azat Yerkinova, Gaukhar Balbayeva, Vassilis J. Inglezakis, Stavros G. Poulopoulos*

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Abstract

This work aimed at investigating the photocatalytic treatment of a synthetic wastewater using UV light (254 nm, 6 W), TiO2 catalyst and H2O2 in a batch recycle annular photoreactor. The total volume of the solution was 250 mL while the irradiated volume in the annular photoreactor with 55.8 mL. Each experiment lasted 120 min and samples were sent for Total Carbon and HPLC analysis. The stock wastewater had initial total carbon 1118 mg L-1. The effect of the presence of phenol in the wastewater on total carbon (TC) removal was also studied. It was shown that the photocatalytic treatment was effective only when initial TC was decreased to 32 mg L-1, whereas the optimum TiO2 concentration was 0.5 g L-1, leading to a TC removal up to 56%. For the same initial carbon load, the optimum H2O2 concentration was found to be 67 mg L-1 resulting in 55% TC removal. Combining, however, TiO2 and H2O2 did not lead to better performance, as 51% TC removal was observed. In contrast, when initial carbon in the wastewater was partially substituted by phenol, the combination of catalyst and hydrogen peroxide was beneficial. Specifically, when 10 ppm of phenol were added keeping the same initial TC concentration, UV/TiO2 treatment resulted in 46% TC removal and 98% phenol conversion, whereas using additionally H2O2 led to 100% phenol conversion after 45 minutes and 81% TC removal.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012143
Number of pages6
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume301
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2018
Event5th Annual International Conference on Material Science and Environmental Engineering, MSEE 2017 - Xiamen, Fujian, China
Duration: 15 Dec 201717 Dec 2017

Keywords

  • photocatalytic treatment
  • UV light

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