Advanced oxidation of pharmaceuticals by the ozone-activated peroxymonosulfate process: the role of different oxidative species.

J Hazard Mater

Research Group EnVOC, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address:

Published: October 2018

Given the need for innovations in advanced oxidation processes to deal with challenges such as OH scavenging, this paper addresses the removal of pharmaceuticals with a large variety in ozone reactivity (k = 0.15-3 × 10 Ms) by use of the novel ozone-activated peroxymonosulfate (O/PMS) process. A clear improvement in removal efficiency (up to 5 times higher) is noticed as a result of the generation of SO- radicals, mainly for slow-ozone reacting compounds (k ≤ 250 Ms) and in the presence of a OH scavenger. Depending on the target compound, SO- are assessed to contribute for 50-90% to the overall removal of the micropollutants, both in single-compound and mixture experiments. Ozone-based PMS activation occurs at neutral to alkaline pH and, in the presence of a OH scavenger, removal efficiencies during O/PMS are up to 3 times higher than with the O/HO process. In optimizing the O/PMS process, a trade-off has to made between the desired removal and the PMS:O ratio. A molar ratio of 1:10 already results in a clear benefit compared to the ozonation process. Further increase of the PMS content up to a 1:1 ratio improved the removal by an additional factor of 1.3-1.5.

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