Title
Gray Water Recovery System Model by Solar Photocatalysis with TiO2 Nanoparticles for Crop Irrigation
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Polish Society of Ecological Engineering (PTIE)
Abstract
The objective of the study was to establish the configuration of the system model to allow the effective recovery of gray water by solar photocatalysis with TiO2 nanoparticles for irrigation of crops. A programmable solar photoreactor based on an S7 1500 PLC and online measurement sensors were used as materials. The inductive method was used to analyze the samples and the deductive method to determine the water quality. The research design used was experimental based on the response surface methodology (MSR) with 20 experiments, 6 of which were central experiments and 6 were axial experiments; these experiments were carried out on sunny days. As a result of the research, a gray water recovery model was obtained, part of this being an electronic system with a programmable photocatalyst, which allowed the development of the experiments. It was concluded that with a solar UV index of 12.21, a dose of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles 1.973 g/L and with an exposure period of 60.041 minutes of the solar photocatalyst to UV radiation on sunny days, gray water was recovered in 90% with a confidence level of 95% and a significance α = 0.05, which translates into excellent quality according to the water quality index established in Peru (ICA-PE).
Start page
78
End page
87
Volume
22
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85104063293
Source
Journal of Ecological Engineering
ISSN of the container
2299-8993
Sponsor(s)
I appreciate the support obtained from the Facultad de Ingeniería Electrónica-Sistemas, of the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica, for the support with equipment and instruments for the implementation of the gray water recovery system.
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