Pilot-scale electro-oxidation equipment with a functional capacity of 0.2 m/hr, with titanium electrodes coated with TiO/RuO/IrO as both anodes and cathodes, was designed. It was installed on the premises of a commercial tannery. The waste streams from all the unit processes were combined. The composite wastewater, after conventional pre-treatment was subjected to electro-oxidation. The treated wastewater was reused four times with intermittent electro-oxidation treatment, after each reuse. EO could bring about a significant reduction in pollution load. Reduction in BOD, COD, TKN and TSS was 92%, 87.5%, 96.2% and 94.6% respectively. Generation of OCl radicals, during electro-oxidation, were ascertained with DMPO-spin trapping techniques using Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The characteristics of the treated wastewater indicated that the wastewater was fit for reuse. No significant change in the quality of the water after each reuse was observed. The physical properties of the leathers obtained following the reuse processes were akin to those of the control leathers, which was indicative that the reuse did not cause adverse quality deviations. This technique could provide the plausibility for minizine the discharge of wastewater to near-zero level.
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Water Sci Technol
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt.
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State Key Lab of Geohazard prevention & Geoenvironment protection, College of Materials and Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China. Electronic address:
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