Treatment of Paper Mill Wastewater Using Fenton Oxidation by Intermittent Dosing of Oxidant


Abstract in English

Paper mill wastewater is an environment contaminated wastewater , and refractory to biological treatment due to its high value of COD and low value of BOD_5. This research studies the treatment of mentioned wastewater using Fenton Oxidation Fe^(2+)/H_2 O_2. The effect of some key elements on this oxidation such as H_2 O_2 and Fe^(2+) doses, dosage strategy of H_2 O_2, with a pH value near 3 was studied. Fenton method showed high efficiency of COD removal reached 78.5 % with a total hydrogen peroxide dose of 2.2g/l applied in four doses and intervals of 15min. Experiments also proved that intermittent dosage - four doses - are better than giving whole dose in one stroke. Results appeared evidently in two points: the efficiency of COD removal and the ratio of BOD5/COD; since we reached through intermittent dosages a value of BOD5/COD near 0.32 , which eventually allows effluent from Fenton oxidation process to be treated biologically.

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