Wastewater treatment from biodiesel production via a coupled photo-Fenton-aerobic sequential batch reactor (SBR) system

Water Sci Technol. 2012;66(4):824-30. doi: 10.2166/wst.2012.250.

Abstract

A coupled system of the photo-Fenton advanced oxidation technique and an aerobic sequential batch reactor (SBR) was used to treat wastewater from biodiesel production using either palm or castor oil. The photo-Fenton reaction and biological process were evaluated individually and were effective at treating the wastewater; nevertheless, each process required longer degradation times for the wastewater pollutants compared with the coupled system. The proposed coupled photo-Fenton/aerobic SBR system obtained a 90% reduction of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) in half of the time required for the biological system individually.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aerobiosis
  • Biofuels*
  • Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis
  • Bioreactors
  • Castor Oil
  • Hydrogen Peroxide / chemistry*
  • Industrial Waste
  • Iron / chemistry*
  • Palm Oil
  • Photochemical Processes
  • Plant Oils
  • Ultraviolet Rays
  • Waste Disposal, Fluid / methods*
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / chemistry*
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / radiation effects

Substances

  • Biofuels
  • Industrial Waste
  • Plant Oils
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • Palm Oil
  • Castor Oil
  • Hydrogen Peroxide
  • Iron