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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 366, Issue -, Pages 141-149Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.02.074
Keywords
Chloride radicals; Sulfate radicals; EDDS; Micropollutant; Organic matter; Solar photocatalysis
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- Ministry for Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (Spanish Government)
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) [CTQ2016-78255-R]
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport [AP2014/01030]
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This paper presents for the first time the treatment of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in a systematic study in different municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWWTPs) of the Mediterranean area, more than 1000 km away. Solar photo-Fenton process at neutral pH with Fe3+-EDDS has been demonstrated to be very efficient under controlled conditions and must be validated in realistic and variable conditions such as real MWWTP effluents of different composition. To this end, CEC removal was studied in effluents from 5 treatment plants in the Mediterranean area of Spain, the inorganic and organic composition varying in the range 161-641 mg L-1 (sulfate), 133-538 mg L-1 (chloride) and 10-20 mg L-1 (dissolved organic carbon). More than 45 CECs were quantified in MWW and results showed that the effect on CEC elimination of the concentration of anions and organic matter was interfered by the nature of the organic matter. However, origin and composition of MWW was not critic for attaining > 80% degradation of CECs after 15 min of reaction. Moreover, conventional anions (sulfate, chloride) had a positive effect on CEC degradation rate. This paper demonstrates the consistency and predictability of the solar photo-Fenton process at circumneutral pH for treating CECs in simple and cheap photoreactors.
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