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- 2022A Novel ceramic tubular membrane coated with a continuous graphene-TiO2 nanocomposite thin-film for CECs mitigationcitations
- 2022Tubular photobioreactors illuminated with LEDs to boost microalgal biomass productioncitations
- 2019Intensifying heterogeneous TiO2 photocatalysis for bromate reduction using the NETmix photoreactorcitations
- 2019Removal of bromate from drinking water using a heterogeneous photocatalytic mili-reactor: impact of the reactor material and water matrixcitations
- 2016Design of a fixed-bed ion-exchange process for the treatment of rinse waters generated in the galvanization process using Laminaria hyperborea as natural cation exchangercitations
- 2016Tertiary treatment of a municipal wastewater toward pharmaceuticals removal by chemical and electrochemical advanced oxidation processescitations
- 2015Incorporation of electrochemical advanced oxidation processes in a multistage treatment system for sanitary landfill leachatecitations
- 2015Degradation of trimethoprim antibiotic by UVA photoelectro-Fenton process mediated by Fe(III)-carboxylate complexescitations
- 2015Enhancement of a solar photo-Fenton reaction by using ferrioxalate complexes for the treatment of a synthetic cotton-textile dyeing wastewatercitations
- 2014Pore structure, interface properties and photocatalytic efficiency of hydration/dehydration derived TiO2/CNT compositescitations
- 2014Degradation of the antibiotic trimethoprim by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes using a carbon-PTFE air-diffusion cathode and a boron-doped diamond or platinum anodecitations
- 2012Insights into UV-TiO2 photocatalytic degradation of PCE for air decontamination systemscitations
- 2012Optimization of nickel biosorption by chemically modified brown macroalgae (Pelvetia canaliculata)citations
- 2012Adding value to marine macro-algae Laminaria digitata through its use in the separation and recovery of trivalent chromium ions from aqueous solutioncitations
- 2010Application of the Nernst-Planck approach to lead ion exchange in Ca-loaded Pelvetia canaliculatacitations
- 2007Modeling equilibrium and kinetics of metal uptake by algal biomass in continuous stirred and packed bed adsorberscitations
- 2007Methylene blue adsorption by algal biomass based materials: Biosorbents characterization and process behaviourcitations
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Tertiary treatment of a municipal wastewater toward pharmaceuticals removal by chemical and electrochemical advanced oxidation processes
Abstract
This study focuses on the degradation of pharmaceuticals from a municipal wastewater after secondary treatment by applying various advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) and electrochemical AOPs (EAOPs) like UVC, H2O2/UVC, anodic oxidation (AO), AO with electrogenerated H2O2 (AO-H2O2), AO-H2O2/UVC and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) using either UVC radiation (PEF-UVC) or UVA radiation (PEF-UVA). The municipal wastewater after secondary treatment was spiked with 5.0 mg L-1 of trimethoprim (TMP) antibiotic. The efficiency of processes to remove TMP followed the order UVC < AO-H2O2 < PEF-UVA << AO approximate to PEF-UVC < AO-H2O2/UVC < PEF-UVA (pH = 2.8) < H2O2/UVC approximate to PEF-UVC (pH = 2.8), using neutral pH, except when identified. While the UVC radiation alone led to a very low TMP removal, the H2O2/UVC process promoted a very high TMP degradation due to the production of hydroxyl radicals ((OH)-O-center dot) by H2O2 cleavage. In the AO-H2O2/UVC process, the electrogeneration of H2O2 can avoid the risks associated with the transportation, storage and manipulation of this oxidant and, furthermore, (OH)-O-center dot at the anode surface are also formed. Nevertheless, low contents of H2O2 were detected mainly at the beginning of the reaction, leading to a lower initial reaction rate when compared with the H2O2/UVC system. In the PEF-UVC, the addition of iron at neutral pH led to the visible formation of insoluble iron oxides that can filter the light. At pH 2.8, the iron remained dissolved, thereby promoting the Fenton's-reaction and increasing the organics removal. The UVA-driven processes showed limited efficiency when compared with those using UVC light. For all processes with H2O2 electrogeneration, the active chlorine species can be scavenged by the H2O2, diminishing the efficiency of the processes. This can explain the lower efficiency of AO-H2O2 when compared with AO. Moreover, the degradation of the MWWTP effluent spiked with 18 pharmaceuticals in mu g L-1 during AO process was assessed as well as the influence of the following operational variables on the process efficiency: (i) H2O2 concentration on H2O2/UVC, (ii) current density on AO, AO-H2O2, AO-H2O2/UVC, PEF-UVC and PEF-UVA, and (iii) pH on PEF-UVA.