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Study of a photocatalytic process for removal of antibiotics from wastewater in a falling film photoreactor: Scavenger study and process intensification feasibility

Lou, Wanruo
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Kane, Abdoulaye
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Wolbert, Dominique
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2017
Chemical Engineering And Processing

This study focused on the removal of antibiotic by coupling of heterogeneous photocatalysis with ozonation and hydrogen peroxide. The main objective was to intensify the efficiency of photocatalytic activity for better and faster antibiotic elimination/mineralization in wastewater. To fulfill this purpose a photocatalytic process based on falling film reactor was designed and optimized. The effects of operating parameters such as wastewater flow rate in the falling film reactor, the presence of an oxidizing agent (H2O2 and O-3), inlet concentrations, including catalyst dosage and light intensity were investigated and discussed. Experiments were mainly conducted with Flumequine and Clarithromycin. The first molecule (Flumequine) will serve as an example of fiuoroquinolone antibiotics and the second (Clarithromycin) as an example of macrolide antibiotics. Experimentally, the results have shown interesting degradation and mineralization efficiency (on the order of 94% for degradation and 76% for mineralization). Evidence for redox catalysis was shown using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) before and after pollutant degradation. Moreover, special attention was also paid to identify the reaction products and the plausible degradation pathway during Flumequine degradation.

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DOI
10.1016/j.cep.2017.10.010
Web of Science ID

WOS:000418211800020

Author(s)
Lou, Wanruo
Kane, Abdoulaye
Wolbert, Dominique
Rtimi, Sami  
Assadi, Aymen Amine
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Chemical Engineering And Processing
Volume

122

Start page

213

End page

221

Subjects

Advanced oxidation processes

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Antibiotic

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Process intensification

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Mass transfer

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Redox catalysis

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Scavengers

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January 15, 2018
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