Proof of Concept for the Organic Electrorefinery Technology with Actual Effluents.

This work describes results of a first proof of the concept of electrorefinery with a real waste obtained from a cashew nut factory, and it shows the effect of the current densities of both the anodic oxidation and electrochemically assisted separation processes on the performance of the system. Results obtained demonstrate that electrorefinery is a promising option to minimize the carbon fingerprint, worth studying for increasing the sustainability of the environmental remediation of wastes, because valuable species can be obtained from the destruction of pollutants and recovered within the same integrated process. They also point out that there is still a long way to reach an optimum solution for this technology, but it is worth the effort to be made.