Journal of Research in Environmental Health

Journal of Research in Environmental Health

The comparison of the electrocuagulation and electro-Fenton Processes Performance in Phenolic Saline Wastewater Treatment by Taguchi method

Document Type : Research article

Authors
ghorban asgari 1
Javad Faradmal 2
Abdolmotaleb Seid-mohammadi 3
Halime Almasi 4
somaye akbari 5
1 Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Hamedan University of MedicalSciences, Hamedan, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, , Faculty of public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan. Iran.
4 Ph.D, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Student Research Committee, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
5 MSc, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, University of Applied Science and Technology (UAST), Zar Center, Karaj, Iran.
10.22038/jreh.2017.21521.1127
Abstract
Background and objective: Industrialization has led not only to an increase in water demand, but also to an increase in water pollution due to the discharge of polluted industrial wastewaters  with high salt content,  and the organic compounds such as phenol  into the water bodies.
This study aimed to investigate  the efficiency of electrocuagulation and electro-Fenton processes in phenol removal from saline wastewater using Taguchi exprimental design method.
Material and methods: This experimental study was performed in a reactor (1 liter) with synthetic phenolic saline wastewater. In this study for electrocoagulation process, the effects of five operation parameters on phenol removal efficiency including reaction time (20-80 min), electrolyte (1-4%), pH (3-5-7-9), initial phenol concentration (500-1000-1500-250 mg/L) and  current density (4-16 mA/cm2) were investigated in four levels by Taguchi L16 orthogonal array. Also for electro-Fenton process, the effects of six operation parameters on removal efficiency in five levels including  reaction time (20-80 min), electrolyte (0-4%), pH (2-3-4-6-8), initial phenol concentration (250-500-1000-1500-2000), current density ( 0-16mA/cm2) and hydrogen peroxide (50-300mg/L) were evaluated by Taguchi L25 orthogonal array. The concentration of phenol was determined according to the estandard method in spectrophotometric wavelength of 500 nm.
Results: Experimental data showed that the optimum phenol elimination condition in electrocuagulation process was initial phenol concentration of 250 mg/L, pH = 5, electrolyt = 3%, curent density of 8 mA/cm2 and reaction time of 60 min. The most influential factor in removal efficiency was the initial concentration (63.2%), and the lowest effect belonged to the electrolyt (4.2%).
The optimum phenol removal condition for electro-Fenton process was initial concentration of 250 mg/L, pH:3, electrolyt:2%, hydrogen peroxide:150 mg/L, current density of 8 mA/cm2 and 20 mine contact time. The most influential factor in elimination efficiency was the curent density (29.12%), and the lowest influence on response variable belonged to the reaction time (3.08%).
Conclusion: This study showed the electro-Fenton process was effective in the removal of phenolthat can be used as an appropriate process in wastewater treatment.
Keywords
Electrocuagulation
Electro-Fenton
phenol
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Journal of Research in Environmental Health
Volume 2, Issue 4 - Serial Number 8
Winter 2017
Pages 321-332