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Perylene pigment wastewater treatment by fenton-enhanced biological process
- Source :
- Environmental Research. 186:109522
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are regarded as priority pollutants owing to their toxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic characteristics. Perylene is a kind of 5-ring PAH with biological toxicity, and classified as a class III carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nowadays, some of its derivatives are often used as industrial pigments. Hence, urgent attention is highly needed to develop new and improved techniques for PAHs and their derivatives removal from the environment. In this study, Fenton oxidation process was hybridized with the biological (anaerobic and aerobic) treatments for the removal of perylene pigment from wastewater. The experiments were carried out by setting Fenton treatment system before and between the biological treatments. The biological results showed that COD removal efficiency reached 60% during 24 h HRT with an effluent COD concentration of 1567.78 mg/L. After the HRT increased to 48 h, the COD removal efficiency was slightly increased (67.9%). However, after combining Fenton treatment with biological treatment (Anaerobic-Fenton-Aerobic), the results revealed over 85% COD removal efficiency and the effluent concentration less than 600 mg/L which was selected as the better treatment configuration for the biological and chemical combined system. The microbial community analysis of activated sludge was carried out with high-throughput Illumina sequencing platform and results showed that Pseudomonas, Citrobacter and Methylocapsa were found to be the dominant genera detected in aerobic and anaerobic reactors. These dominant bacteria depicted that the community composition of the reactors for treating perylene pigments wastewater were similar to that of the soil contaminated by PAHs and the activated sludge from treating PAHs wastewater. Economic analysis results revealed that the reagent cost was relatively cheap, amounting to 10.64 yuan per kilogram COD. This study vividly demonstrated that combining Fenton treatment with biological treatment was efficient and cost-effective.
- Subjects :
- Pollutant
Sewage
Wastewater
010501 environmental sciences
Contamination
Waste Disposal, Fluid
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Activated sludge
chemistry
Reagent
Environmental chemistry
Sewage treatment
030212 general & internal medicine
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Perylene
Effluent
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00139351
- Volume :
- 186
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4aefd8f09aef19387d38de195513e6eb