The system ozone and hydrogen peroxide was used to reclaim wastewater from the secondary clarifier from a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid-Spain). The assays were performed by bubbling a gas mixture of oxygen and ozone, with ∼24 g Nm−3 of ozone concentration, through a volume of wastewater samples for 20 minutes at 25°C . The removal of dissolved micropollutants such as Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and Organic Carbon (TOC) was enhanced by adding periodic pulses of hydrogen peroxide while keeping pH above 8.0 throughout the runs. Removal efficiency ratios in the range of 7–26 mg O3/mg TOC and 0.24 mg O3 /ng micropollutants at 5 minutes of ozonation were assessed as reference data to reclaim wastewater from STP. The relation between the extent of TOC removed and ozone doses used was related by a second-order kinetic model in which the time-integrated ozone-hydrogen peroxide concentration was included.
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May 01 2011
Ozone-based reclamation of an STP effluent
A. Rodríguez;
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alcala, 28771 Alcala de Henares, Spain
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R. Rosal;
R. Rosal
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alcala, 28771 Alcala de Henares, Spain
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M. J. Gomez;
M. J. Gomez
2Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Almerιa, 04010 Almerιa, Spain
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E. García-Calvo;
E. García-Calvo
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alcala, 28771 Alcala de Henares, Spain
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A. R. Fernandez-Alba
A. R. Fernandez-Alba
2Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Almerιa, 04010 Almerιa, Spain
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Water Sci Technol (2011) 63 (10): 2123–2130.
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A. Rodríguez, R. Rosal, M. J. Gomez, E. García-Calvo, A. R. Fernandez-Alba; Ozone-based reclamation of an STP effluent. Water Sci Technol 1 May 2011; 63 (10): 2123–2130. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2011.298
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