Wet Air Oxidation of Organic Wastewater Catalyzed by Doped Ceria

The catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of H acid and phenol was investigated in the presence of Cu or Fe doped CeOsolid solutions, which were obtained by sol-gel method. The experiment results showed that the incorporation of Cu or Fe into the fluorite lattice of CeOstrongly enhanced the oxidation activity of the catalyst. At 90 ℃ and 0.1 MPa, H acid conversion was 70% for the Ce0.9Fe0.1O2-δ and 60% for the Ce0.9Cu0.1O2-δ catalyst. For phenol removal, the conversion was 70% for the Ce0.9Cu0.1O2-δ catalyst, while for the Ce0.9Fe0.1O2-δ the conversion was 30%. The results indicated that Ce0.9Cu0.1O2-δ was suitable for the treatment of organic wastewaters while Ce0.9Fe0.1O2-δ was suitable for the removal of H acid. The 70% phenol removal rate with Ce0.9Cu0.1O2-δ catalyst was markedly increased to 90% with Ce0.8Cu0.2O2-δ catalyst. However, the phenol removal reduced from 30% to 15% with Fe content increasing from 10% to 20%. For the H acid, the increase of the content of Cu or Fe tended to obviously increase the original reaction rate while the COD removal changed little.

Process Optimization on Anaerobic Treatment of Citric Acid Wastewater

[Objective] The aim was to obtain higher COD removal rate so as to guide the process of citric acid industrial wastewater. [Method] The effects of controllable factors, acidification time, hydraulic retention time, and influent COD concentration, in-anaerobic treatment process of citric acid wastewater on COD removal rate were studied and the COD removal rate was optimized by response surface method. [Result] There was no interaction between acidification time and the other two factors. It was showed that hydraulic retention time and influent COD concentration had significant effect on COD removal rate and there was interaction between the two factors. The optimum COD removing process conditions was as follows: acidification time 1.53 h, hydraulic retention time 3.52 h and influent COD concentration 2 698 mg/L. Under the optimized conditions, the COD removal rate was 93.31% and it was much closed to the experimental result, 93.29%. [Conclusion] Using response surface method to optimize the anaerobic treatment of citric acid wastewater can result in optimized achievement.

Effect and Cost Research for Leachate Treatment in PAC/Fenton and Fenton/PAC Technology

To compare the treatment effects and the costs of coagulation/Fenton process and Fenton/coagulation process in leachate treatment,fresh and old leachates were respestively treated with these two techniques.The experimental results indicate that the highest chemical oxygen demand(COD)removal rate of Fenton reaction on leachate can be acquired under the conditions of pH=3.5,nH2O2/nFe2+=6,mH2O2/mCOD=3,and reaction time=4 h.Polyaluminium chloride(PAC)coagulation has the highest COD removal rate on leachate under the condition of mPAC/mCOD=0.6.Under the optimum reaction conditions,coagulation/Fenton and Fenton/coagulation processes were respestively adopted to treat raw leachate.The data also show that COD removal rate of coagulation/Fenton process on fresh and old leachates are 90.56% and 86.52% respectively and that of Fenton/coagulation process 89.99% and 85.99%,so there is no obvious difference.But the cost of coagulation/Fenton process for leachate treatment is RMB 62.6,lower than that of Fenton/coagulation process.Therefore,coagulation/Fenton process is more optimized than Fenton/coagulation process for leachate treatment.