Experimental Design of Photo-Fenton Reactions for the Treatment of Car Wash Wastewater Effluents by Response Surface Methodological Analysis | Zendy

Maha A. Tony | Zendy; Zeinab Bedri | Zendy

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Experimental Design of Photo-Fenton Reactions for the Treatment of Car Wash Wastewater Effluents by Response Surface Methodological Analysis

Author(s) -

Maha A. Tony,

Zeinab Bedri

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

advances in environmental chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2356-6698

pISSN - 2314-7652

DOI - 10.1155/2014/958134

Subject(s) - wastewater , hydrogen peroxide , effluent , chemical oxygen demand , response surface methodology , reagent , factorial experiment , advanced oxidation process , chemistry , sewage treatment , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , waste management , environmental chemistry , environmental engineering , chromatography , computer science , organic chemistry , engineering , machine learning

Establishing a treatment process for practical and economic disposal of car wash wastewater has become an urgent environmental concern. Photo-Fenton’s process as one of the advanced oxidation processes is a potentially useful oxidation process in treating such wastewater. Lab-scale experiments with UV source, coupled with Fenton’s reagent, showed that hydrocarbon oil is degradable through such a process. The feasibility of photo-Fenton’s process to treat wastewater from a car wash is investigated in the present study. A factorial design based on the response surface methodology was applied to optimize the photo-Fenton oxidation process conditions using chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction as the target parameter to optimize. The reagent (Fe2+ and H2O2 concentration) and pH are used as the controlling factors to be optimized. Maximal COD reduction (91.7%) was achieved when wastewater samples were treated at pH 3.5 in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and iron in amounts of 403.9 and 48.4 mg/L, respectively

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