The project investigated the simultaneous degradation of chlorophenols dissolved in aqueous systems. The photocatalysis advanced oxidation process was the technology applied to achieve treatment. Chemical behavioural tracking was performed using the chloride dehalogenation sequence dynamics. The study recorded reductive dehalogenation chemical transformation kinetics of multi-substituted chlorinated phenolics in continuous flow reactor systems. This was performed by manipulation of liquid flow-rates in the photocatalytic oxidations process using suspended and immobilised catalyst applications. A modified Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic model was proposed that explained the oxidation transformational behaviour of the dehalogenation process derived intermediates. Complementary photocatalytic performance matrices were established for each flow regime; model parameters were calculated and estimated for behavioural profiles of all compounds under scrutiny.
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August 30 2016
Evaluation of flow-rate dynamics in the simultaneous photocatalytic treatment of multichlorinated substituted phenols in continuous-flow systems Available to Purchase
Z. Khuzwayo;
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Water Utilisation Division, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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E. M. N. Chirwa
E. M. N. Chirwa
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Water Utilisation Division, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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Water Sci Technol (2016) 74 (9): 2211–2224.
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Received:
April 19 2016
Accepted:
August 17 2016
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Z. Khuzwayo, E. M. N. Chirwa; Evaluation of flow-rate dynamics in the simultaneous photocatalytic treatment of multichlorinated substituted phenols in continuous-flow systems. Water Sci Technol 14 November 2016; 74 (9): 2211–2224. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2016.411
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