TY  - JOUR
PB  - Technoscience Publications
JF  - Nature Environment and Pollution Technology
N1  - cited By 14
Y1  - 2010///
N2  - The study examined photo-Fenton treatment of an antibiotic wastewater containing amoxicillin and cloxacillin, and evaluated the effect of operating conditions (H2O2/COD molar ratio and H2O 2Fe2+molar ratio) on biodegradability (BOD5/COD ratio) improvement and mineralization. The optimum operating conditions for treatment of the antibiotic wastewater was observed to be H2O 2/COD molar ratio 2.5 and H2O2/Fe2+ molar ratio 20 (COD/H2O2/Fe2+ molar ratio 1/2.5/0.125) at pH 3 and reaction time 30 min. Under optimum operating conditions, complete degradation of amoxicillin and cloxacillin occurred in one minute, biodegradability improved from 0.09 to 0.50 ± 0.01 in 30 min, and COD and DOC removal were 67 ± 1  and 51 ± 2, respectively in 30 min. The study indicated that the photo-Fenton process can be used as pretreatment for antibiotic degradation and biodegradability improvement of antibiotic wastewater containing amoxicillin and cloxacillin.
A1  - Elmolla, E.S.
A1  - Chaudhuri, M.
SP  - 365
EP  - 370
VL  - 9
SN  - 09726268
TI  - Photo-fenton treatment of antibiotic wastewater
KW  - Antibiotics; Biodegradability; Degradation; Image enhancement; Wastewater treatment
KW  -  Amoxicillin; Antibiotic degradation; Antibiotic wastewaters; Cloxacillin; Operating condition; Optimum operating conditions; Photo-Fenton process; Photo-Fenton treatments
KW  -  Molar ratio
KW  -  antibiotics; biodegradation; mineralization; waste treatment; wastewater
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651561696&partnerID=40&md5=f070ca12c5a05e380e40976d6bbc644c
ID  - scholars1347
AV  - none
IS  - 2
ER  -