RT journal article
T1 Heterogeneous Photo-Fenton Reaction for Olive Mill Wastewater Treatment-Case of Reusable Catalyst
A1 Agabo García, Cristina
A1 Calderón, Naima
A1 Hodaifa, Gassan
A2 Ingeniería Química y Tecnología de Alimentos
K1 olive mill wastewater
K1 photo-fenton reaction
K1 artificial UV light
K1 heterogeneous reaction
K1 catalyst recycling
AB Heterogeneous catalysts can be an efficient and economical option for olive mill wastewater (OMW) treatment by an advanced oxidation process if they could be reused. In this work, OMW was treated using a heterogeneous photo-Fenton reaction (artificial ultraviolet light/H2O2/HFeO2). For this purpose, different concentrations of HFeO2 were tested: 0.04; 0.3; 0.8; 5.0; 10.0; 20.0; 30.0, and 50.0 g/L. The following operational conditions were chosen: pH = 3.0, temperature = 20 degrees C, agitation rate = 700 rpm. The experimental results showed high removal percentages of the main OMW characterization parameters at 50 g/L of HFeO2: %CODremoval = 62.8%; %total phenolic compounds (TPCs) = 88.9%. These results were also compared with those of other control oxidation systems, i.e., UV, H2O2, and UV/H2O2, which provided 35.5 and 56.1%; 46.2 and 74.0%; 48.0 and 76.8% removal, respectively. In addition, the catalyst was reused three times, recovering more than 90.5% of it.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-4344
YR 2021
FD 2021-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25047
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25047
LA eng
NO This research was funded by Junta of Andalusia and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spain) "Project: Application of advanced oxidation technologies for treating of washing wastewaters of olive oil and olives, grant number AGR-7092".
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026