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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 378, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2019.122097
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; UASB reactor; Solar photoelectro-Fenton process; Combined processes; Slaughterhouse wastewater
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- FONDECYT [1170352]
- FONDAP CONICYT SERC Chile [15110019]
- DICYT-USACH
- CONICYT [21140248]
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A new semicontinuous anaerobic digestion/solar photoelectro-Fenton (SPEF) process for the treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater is studied. An Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor was used at two different organic load rates (OLR) (3.94 and 8.15 g COD L-1 d(-1)), while the SPEF was carried out in a photoelectrochemical reactor using a filter press cell with a DSA anode and an air diffusion cathode. The results showed that the UASB reactor achieved up to 70% COD removal for the highest OLR, with a low efficiency of suspended solid removal. The anaerobic effluent was treated by the SPEF process, resulting in 88% and 72% COD removal for the initial concentrations of 195 +/- 14 mg L-1 and 867 +/- 52 mg L-1, respectively, and a turbidity reduction of up to 80%. The treatment of wastewater by SPEF using a current density of 10 mA cm(-2) was five times less costly than that of 25 mA cm(-2), with an associated cost of 1.4 USD h(-1) for the treatment. The proposed semicontinuous processes eliminate at least 91% of the total COD, thus representing a new option for the treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater.
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