Journal
BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 70, Issue -, Pages 17-22Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2012.09.015
Keywords
2,4-D; Carbon felt electrode; Electrochemical pre-treatment; Biodegradability; Activated sludge; Biological treatment
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A coupled process was studied for the removal of a chlorinated pesticide: 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). A home-made electrochemical flow cell was used for the pre-treatment and a biological treatment was then carried out using activated sludge supplied by a local wastewater treatment plant. 2,4-D was used as a target compound for the study. Several parameters were monitored during the biological treatment, like dissolved organic carbon (DOC), the target compound and the major by-product. Pretreatment led to a quick decrease of DOC during the biological process, since a 66% mineralization yield was measured after the second day, and 79% after the seventh day of culture. After two days of treatment, HPLC results revealed a total degradation of Chlorohydroquinone, the major by-product. The electrochemical pretreatment shortened the length of the biological treatment, since DOC measurements showed that in the case of non-pretreated 2,4-D, no mineralization was observed before day 7. These promising results should be subsequently confirmed on commercial 2,4-D-containing solutions and then on real effluents. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available