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Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process

Antibiotics are emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment because of their adverse effects on aquatic life and humans. Antibiotics wastewater has high COD and very low BOD5, and hence is difficult to treat biologically. The objective of this research was to study the effect of operating condi...

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Main Authors: Chaudhuri, M., Elmolla, E. S.
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Published: 2008
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
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spelling my.utp.eprints.21942017-01-19T08:26:02Z Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process Chaudhuri, M. Elmolla, E. S. TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Antibiotics are emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment because of their adverse effects on aquatic life and humans. Antibiotics wastewater has high COD and very low BOD5, and hence is difficult to treat biologically. The objective of this research was to study the effect of operating conditions (reaction time, pH, H2O2 dose and Fe2+ dose) of the photo Fenton process in improving the biodegradability of a synthetic amoxicillin wastewater. The results show that the biodegradability ratio (BOD5/COD) improved from 0 to 0.36, 0.51 and 0.60 in 15, 45 and 75 min reaction time respectively. The biodegradability ratio was 0.51 when H2O2 concentration 50, mM and 0.55 at Fe2+ concentration 0.5 mM, and 0.53 when pH value 3.50. The photo Fenton process is considered a suitable pretreatment method to improve the biodegradability of antibiotics wastewater. 2008-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/2194/1/Improvement_of_Biodegradability_of_Antibiotics_Wastewater_by_Photo_Fenton_Process.pdf Chaudhuri, M. and Elmolla, E. S. (2008) Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process. In: International Conference on Environment 2008 (ICENV 2008), 15-17 December, 2008, Penang, Malaysia. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/2194/
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topic TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Chaudhuri, M.
Elmolla, E. S.
Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
description Antibiotics are emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment because of their adverse effects on aquatic life and humans. Antibiotics wastewater has high COD and very low BOD5, and hence is difficult to treat biologically. The objective of this research was to study the effect of operating conditions (reaction time, pH, H2O2 dose and Fe2+ dose) of the photo Fenton process in improving the biodegradability of a synthetic amoxicillin wastewater. The results show that the biodegradability ratio (BOD5/COD) improved from 0 to 0.36, 0.51 and 0.60 in 15, 45 and 75 min reaction time respectively. The biodegradability ratio was 0.51 when H2O2 concentration 50, mM and 0.55 at Fe2+ concentration 0.5 mM, and 0.53 when pH value 3.50. The photo Fenton process is considered a suitable pretreatment method to improve the biodegradability of antibiotics wastewater.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Chaudhuri, M.
Elmolla, E. S.
author_facet Chaudhuri, M.
Elmolla, E. S.
author_sort Chaudhuri, M.
title Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
title_short Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
title_full Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
title_fullStr Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
title_full_unstemmed Improvement of Biodegradability of Antibiotics Wastewater by Photo Fenton Process
title_sort improvement of biodegradability of antibiotics wastewater by photo fenton process
publishDate 2008
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/2194/1/Improvement_of_Biodegradability_of_Antibiotics_Wastewater_by_Photo_Fenton_Process.pdf
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