| Author | Almomani, Fares |
| Author | Bhosale, Rahul |
| Author | Kumar, Anand |
| Author | Khreisheh, Majeda |
| Author | Gosh, Ujjal |
| Available date | 2022-09-15T07:08:00Z |
| Publication Date | 2017 |
| Publication Name | Sustainable Engineering Forum 2017 - Topical Conference at the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety |
| Resource | Scopus |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/10576/34071 |
| Abstract | The treatment of effluent wastewater containing pharmaceutical by solar advanced oxidation processes were studied in a pilot plant. The removal efficiency of four groups of pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, estrogens, acidic, and neutral), commonly detected as emerging contaminants, were tested by different solar-driven photochemical processes including solar-photolysis, solar-photocatalytic oxidation using Fe(III) or TiO2 and solar based photo-Fenton reaction. Results showed that Solar-photolysis is not effective for the complete removal of the selected contaminants, on other hand solar-photocatalytic oxidation using TiO2, solar based photo-Fenton reaction showed significant removal efficiencies and high mineralization. Solar photo-catalytic systems produced a final solution with lower toxicity if compared with original solution. |
| Sponsor | This publication was made possible by the NPRP grant (NPRP No.: 6-1436-2-581) from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of authors. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the Qatar University to do this work. |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | AIChE |
| Subject | Emerging contaminates; Hydroxyl radicals; Photons; Solar excitation
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| Title | The potential use of solar photocatalytic oxidation for removal of emerging pharmaceuticals from effluent of wastewater treatment plant: A pilot plant study |
| Type | Conference Paper |
| Pagination | 63-69 |
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