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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 727, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138684
Keywords
Bio-electro-Fenton; Scaling-up; Pharmaceuticals; Wastewater treatment; Transformation pathway
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- China Scholarship Council
- Novo Nordisk Foundation [NNF16OC0021568]
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The bio-electro-Fenton (BEF) technology has proven to be an effective and energy-saving method for treating wastewaters containing a single pharmaceutical in the lab-scale. However, the continuous degradation of pharmaceuticals in a scaled-up BEF has never been reported. In this study, a 20-L dual-chamber BEF reactor was designed and tested for treating six model pharmaceuticals. The effect of key operational factors including applied voltage, cathode Fe2+ dosage, initial pharmaceuticals concentration and hydraulic retention time (HRT), were assessed. By implementing 0.1 V voltage, 0.3 mM Fe2+ and HRT of 26 h, the six selected pharmaceuticals (500 mu g L-1 for each) were removed completely. Moreover, transformation products during clofibric acid degradation, such as 4-chlororesorcinol, were detected and the relevant transformation pathwaywas proposed. Additionally, it successfully removed these pharmaceuticals in the real wastewater matrix. This paper contributes to scaling-up the BEF process for continuous and effective treating pharmaceuticals-contaminated wastewater. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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