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Nonylphenol deca-ethoxylate removal from wastewater by UV/H2O2: Degradation kinetics and toxicity effects
- Source :
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 124:1-7
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Nonylphenol ethoxylated (NPEOs) nonionic surfactants have been increasingly used in different industrial, commercial and domestic applications. Unfortunately, they are classified as endocrine disrupting chemicals (and also considered as contaminants of emerging concern) having adverse effects on animal and human reproduction. The treatment of nonylphenol-decaethoxylated (NP-10) via H2O2/UV-C process at different reaction times (5, 10, 20, 40, 80 min) and H2O2 concentrations was investigated. After 80 min treatment the removal rates of NP-10 solution (initial concentration 100 mg/L) in deionized water were 88%, 97% and 98% for 10, 20 and 100 mg/L of H2O2 respectively. The same experimental conditions were applied to real wastewater spiked with 100 mg/L of NP-10 showing the following removal rates: 84%, 98% and 99%, respectively. The possible contribution of different radicals to NP-10 degradation by H2O2/UV-C treatment was investigated by evaluating the effect of different radical scavengers (namely NO3−, NaCl, Na2SO4, Na2CO3, KH2PO4 and phatalate). Toxicity data (Aliivibrio fischeri, Raphidocelis subcapitata and Daphnia magna) on treated solutions and wastewater highlighted the presence of residual toxicity in all samples evidencing that no complete mineralization occurred.
- Subjects :
- Advanced oxidation processes, Ecotoxicology, Nonylphenol ethoxylates, Radical scavengers, Wastewater
Radical scavengers
Risk
Environmental Engineering
General Chemical Engineering
Daphnia magna
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Wastewater
010501 environmental sciences
Ecotoxicology
01 natural sciences
Mineralization (biology)
chemistry.chemical_compound
Raphidocelis subcapitata
Environmental Chemistry
Chemical Engineering (all)
Aliivibrio fischeri
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Advanced oxidation processes
Nonylphenol ethoxylates
biology
biology.organism_classification
Nonylphenol
chemistry
Reliability and Quality
Environmental chemistry
Toxicity
Safety
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09575820
- Volume :
- 124
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dca891154a4786716c68aa0b51ba8bcd