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Advanced treatment of the reverse osmosis concentrate produced during reclamation of municipal wastewater

Dialynas Emmanouil, Mantzavinos Dionysis, Diamantopoulos Evaggelos

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/9EAFC21C-B7E7-47B4-9ACB-B1DBA3AC95E8
Year 2008
Type of Item Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
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Bibliographic Citation E. Dialynas, D. Mantzavinos and E. Diamadopoulos, "Advanced treatment of the reverse osmosis concentrate produced during reclamation of municipal wastewater," Water Res., vol. 42, no. 18, pp. 4603-4608, Sept. 2008. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.08.008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2008.08.008
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The work investigated the treatment of the concentrate produced from the reverse osmosis treatment of an MBR effluent. Two conventional chemical processes, coagulation and activated carbon adsorption, and three advanced oxidation processes (electrochemical treatment, photocatalysis and sonolysis) were applied. Coagulation with alum gave dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removals up to 42%, while FeCl(3) achieved higher removals (52%) at lower molar doses. Adsorption with granular activated carbon showed the highest DOC removals up to 91.3% for 5 g/L. The adsorption isotherm was linear with a non-adsorbable organic fraction of around 1.2 mg/L DOC. The three oxidation methods employed, electrolytic oxidation over a boron-doped diamond electrode, UVA/TiO2 photocatalysis and sonolysis at 80 kHz, showed similar behavior: during the first few minutes of treatment there was a moderate removal of DOC followed by further oxidation at a very slow rate. Electrolytic oxidation was capable of removing up to 36% at 17.8A after 30 min of treatment, sonolysis removed up to 34% at 135W after 60 min, while photocatalysis was capable of removing up to 50% at 60 min.

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