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Efficiency comparison for treatment of amantadine pharmaceutical wastewater by Fenton, ultrasonic, and Fenton/ultrasonic processes

Efficiency comparison for treatment of amantadine pharmaceutical wastewater by Fenton, ultrasonic, and Fenton/ultrasonic processes
Efficiency comparison for treatment of amantadine pharmaceutical wastewater by Fenton, ultrasonic, and Fenton/ultrasonic processes
Amantadine wastewater is quite recalcitrant to biological treatment because of the quite stable adamantine backbone. To improve amantadine wastewater biodegradability, the combined advanced oxidation process, such as Fenton/ultrasonic process, was proposed to treat amantadine industrial wastewater. The efficiency comparisons for the treatment of amantadine wastewater using Fenton oxidation, ultrasonic process, and Fenton/ultrasonic process were conducted. The results of wastewater treatment with Fenton/ultrasonic process indicated that the TOC removal reached 65.6 %, showing almost 4 times of the degradation rate by individual oxidizing action of hydrogen peroxide. Kinetic study revealed that degradation of amantadine wastewater fitted first order kinetics for the three processes under investigation. The synergistic index (f) for the combined process was calculated as 2.24, indicating an obvious synergy effect. The energy consumption for hydrodynamic cavitation-based process has been analyzed on the basis of cavitational yield. Fenton and combined processes reduced the toxicity of wastewater by 50 and 55 %, respectively, while ultrasonic process showed no obvious effect on toxicity reduction. The monitoring of treated wastewater by EEM and GC–MS showed that the Fenton/ultrasonic process effectively removed the organic matters in the wastewater, especially the biodegradation-resistant matters containing benzene ring.
amantadine, fenton, ultrasonic, fenton/ultrasonic, comparison, cavitation
1866-6280
4979-4987
Zeng, Ping
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Du, Jijun
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Song, Yonghui
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Liu, Ruixia
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Zhang, Panyue
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Du, Jijun
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Song, Yonghui
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Liu, Yongqiang
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Liu, Ruixia
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Zhang, Panyue
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Xiao, Shuhu
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Zeng, Ping, Du, Jijun, Song, Yonghui, Liu, Yongqiang, Liu, Ruixia, Zhang, Panyue and Xiao, Shuhu (2015) Efficiency comparison for treatment of amantadine pharmaceutical wastewater by Fenton, ultrasonic, and Fenton/ultrasonic processes. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73 (9), 4979-4987. (doi:10.1007/s12665-015-4204-2).

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Amantadine wastewater is quite recalcitrant to biological treatment because of the quite stable adamantine backbone. To improve amantadine wastewater biodegradability, the combined advanced oxidation process, such as Fenton/ultrasonic process, was proposed to treat amantadine industrial wastewater. The efficiency comparisons for the treatment of amantadine wastewater using Fenton oxidation, ultrasonic process, and Fenton/ultrasonic process were conducted. The results of wastewater treatment with Fenton/ultrasonic process indicated that the TOC removal reached 65.6 %, showing almost 4 times of the degradation rate by individual oxidizing action of hydrogen peroxide. Kinetic study revealed that degradation of amantadine wastewater fitted first order kinetics for the three processes under investigation. The synergistic index (f) for the combined process was calculated as 2.24, indicating an obvious synergy effect. The energy consumption for hydrodynamic cavitation-based process has been analyzed on the basis of cavitational yield. Fenton and combined processes reduced the toxicity of wastewater by 50 and 55 %, respectively, while ultrasonic process showed no obvious effect on toxicity reduction. The monitoring of treated wastewater by EEM and GC–MS showed that the Fenton/ultrasonic process effectively removed the organic matters in the wastewater, especially the biodegradation-resistant matters containing benzene ring.

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Accepted/In Press date: 17 February 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 March 2015
Published date: May 2015
Keywords: amantadine, fenton, ultrasonic, fenton/ultrasonic, comparison, cavitation
Organisations: Water & Environmental Engineering Group

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Local EPrints ID: 377693
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377693
ISSN: 1866-6280
PURE UUID: 940e9ab1-2b37-4ad5-ab7f-d1255e37fd35
ORCID for Yongqiang Liu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9688-1786

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Date deposited: 16 Jun 2015 10:38
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Author: Ping Zeng
Author: Jijun Du
Author: Yonghui Song
Author: Yongqiang Liu ORCID iD
Author: Ruixia Liu
Author: Panyue Zhang
Author: Shuhu Xiao

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