Title
Insights into brewery wastewater treatment by the electro-Fenton hybrid process: How to get a significant decrease in organic matter and toxicity
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Dall'Oglio I.C.
de Pauli A.R.
Romani M.
Módenes A.N.
Trigueros D.E.G.
West Paraná State University
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
This work aimed to perform selective experimental arrays based on the electro-Fenton hybrid (EFH) process for pollutants abatement and toxicity reduction in brewery wastewater (BW). Fenton and electrocoagulation (EC) methods were assessed preliminarily, including the Fe2+ catalyst yield and H2O2 loss. Each method performance on reducing total organic carbon (TOC) was assessed using a 33 full factorial design (FFD). Firstly, Fe2+ species were produced in short time ranges with the electric current density at 50 A m−2 and electrical conductivity at 1200 μS cm−1, followed by EFH experiments with an initial addition of 9.0 g L−1 H2O2. In three levels, initial pH (2.5–3.5) values, Fe2+ production-dedicated time (5–15 min), and H2O2 renovating percentage (70–90%) were also evaluated, assessing TOC removal. Secondly, nine EFH kinetics, upon the addition of an initial 9.0 g L−1 H2O2 along with H2O2 addition at 82.5%, every 5 min, and three levels for pH (3.0–3.4) were carried out, beginning after three Fe2+ production-dedicated times (4–6 min). Thirdly, another 60 min kinetic experiment was proposed, with an initial 6 min EC process, followed by a 39 min EFH process, and finally, a 15 min EC process, assessing TOC removal and remaining toxicity. A significant improvement in TOC removal performance, about 90%, along with high toxicity reduction was attained after a refined EFH-based treatment. Therefore, keeping permanent EFH conditions with more suitable parameters provided a unique perspective for removing highly significant pollutants.
Volume
263
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de procesos Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091213470
PubMed ID
Source
Chemosphere
ISSN of the container
00456535
Sponsor(s)
The author I.C. Dall’Oglio thanks to the support of the National Council for the Improvement of Higher Education (001- CAPES ). F.R. Espinoza-Quiñones and A.N. Módenes thank the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development ( CNPq ) for the research productivity and research project grant.
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