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Sonication of Petrochemical Industry Wastewaters

Rukiye Oztekin, Delia Teresa Sponza

Asian Journal of Applied Chemistry Research · pp. 39–58 · Published 28 May 2021

10.9734/ajacr/2021/v8i330195

Abstract

The objective of the study was the treatment of the pollutants (dissolved chemical oxygen demand (CODdis), total organic carbon (TOC) and total and individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)) present in the petrochemical industry wastewater (PCI) by sonication. The effects of increasing sonication times (0 min, 60 min, 120 and 150 min), sonication temperatures (25oC, 30oC and 60oC), on the CODdis, TOC and (PAH) removal efficiencies were researched at a sonication frequency of 35 kHz and a sonication power of 640. All the PAHs and their metabolites were measured by an gas chromatography (Agilent 6890 NC) equipped with a mass selective detector (Agilent 5973 inert MSD) with a capillary column (HP5-MS, 30 m, 0.25mm, 0.25µm)). The CH4, CO2 and H2 gas analysis, CODdis, TOC and the other pollutants were measured according to Standard Methods. As the sonication time and temperature were increased from 60 to 120 and 150 min, and from 25oC to 30oC and to 60oC, the CODdis, total PAH and TOC yields increased from 80.16% to 92.15%, from 78.37% to 94.23% and from 79.65% to 96.90%, respectively. The PAHs intermediates namely, 1–methylnaphthalene, 9–hydroxyfluorene, 9,10–phenanthrenequione, benzoic acid, 1,2,3–thiadiazole–4–carboxylic acid, naphthalene, p–hydroxybenzoic acid, fluorene, di–hydroxy pyrene, pyrene di–hydrodiol were sonodegraded with yields of 92.11%, 95.23%, 98.42%, 97.34%, 99.44%, 96.30%, 99.36%, 97.17%, 99.63% and 99.98% respectively, after 150 min, at 25oC. The presence of CH4, H2 and CO2 gases during sonication showed that the degradation mechanism of the PAHs is ‘‘pyrolysis”.

Chemical oxygen demand petrochemical industry wastewater polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons intermediates pyrolysis sonication total organic carbon

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