1. Wastewater treatment from biodiesel production via a coupled photo-Fenton-aerobic sequential batch reactor (SBR) system.
- Author
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Ramírez XM, Mejía GM, López KV, Vásquez GR, and Sepúlveda JM
- Subjects
- Aerobiosis, Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis, Bioreactors, Castor Oil, Industrial Waste, Palm Oil, Photochemical Processes, Plant Oils, Ultraviolet Rays, Water Pollutants, Chemical radiation effects, Biofuels, Hydrogen Peroxide chemistry, Iron chemistry, Waste Disposal, Fluid methods, Water Pollutants, Chemical chemistry
- Abstract
A coupled system of the photo-Fenton advanced oxidation technique and an aerobic sequential batch reactor (SBR) was used to treat wastewater from biodiesel production using either palm or castor oil. The photo-Fenton reaction and biological process were evaluated individually and were effective at treating the wastewater; nevertheless, each process required longer degradation times for the wastewater pollutants compared with the coupled system. The proposed coupled photo-Fenton/aerobic SBR system obtained a 90% reduction of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) in half of the time required for the biological system individually.
- Published
- 2012
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