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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 237, Issue -, Pages 180-186Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.055
Keywords
UV/chlorine; Advanced oxidation process; Antiscalant; Reverse osmosis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51578308]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China for International Science & Innovation Cooperation Major Project between Governments [2016YFE0118800]
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, China
- Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality
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Reverse osmosis (RO) technology plays an increasingly important role in municipal wastewater reclamation. However, the antiscalants used in RO systems showed adverse effects to the ecosystem: impending the removal of hardness from RO concentrates; inducing phosphorus pollution in receiving water; enhancing the trace metal migration in the environment. In this study, UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process was used to oxidize a typical phosphoric antiscalant (1-Hydroxyethane-1, 1-diphosphonic Acid, HEDP). UV/chlorine showed significant synergetic effects on HEDP degradation compared to UV irradiation or chlorination alone. Compared to UV/H2O2 oxidation, UV/chlorine process is more efficient for HEDP transformation with chlorine dosages ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 mmoL/L. Chorine dosage showed dual effects on HEDP oxidation by UV/chlorine: the increasing trend of transformation efficiency of HEDP got slower with increasing chlorine dosage. The transformation efficiency of HEDP by UV/chlorine oxidation decreased from 39% to 14% with pH increasing from 4.5 to 9.0, likely due to the higher quantum yields and lower radical quenching rates of HOCI than those of OCl- The transformation efficiency of HEDP decreased 14% and 42% with 30 mM of chloride and bicarbonate, respectively. The presence of nitrate promoted the oxidation of HEDP by UV/chlorine: the transformation efficiency increased 5% and 83% with the presence of 5 mM and 30 mM nitrate, respectively. Based on the static scale inhibition tests, UV/chlorine oxidation is effective at removing the scale inhibition ability of HEDP. During UV/chlorine process, the maximum scale inhibition ratio decreased from 66% to 34% as the removal of phosphonate ligand from HEDP increased to 80%.
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