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2010

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Polat, Didem

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Textile wastewaters are highly colored and non-biodegradable having variable compositions of colored dyes, surfactants and toxic chemicals. Recently, ozonation is considered as an effective method that can be used in the treatment of industrial wastewaters; catalytic ozonation being one of the advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), is applied in order to reduce the ozone consumption and to increase the chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total organic carbon (TOC) removals. In this study, catalytic ozonation of industrial textile wastewater (ITWW) obtained from AKSA A.Ş. (Yalova, İstanbul) textile plant has been examined in a three phase fluidized bed reactor at different conditions. The effects of inlet chemical oxygen demand concentration (CODin), pH, different catalyst types [perflorooctyl alumina (PFOA) and alumina] and catalyst dosage on ozonation process were determined. Moreover, the changes in the organic removal efficiencies with gas to liquid flow rate ratio were investigated. The dispersion coefficients (DL) and volumetric ozone-water mass transfer coefficients (kLa) were estimated at various gas and liquid flow rates in order to observe the effect of liquid mixing in the reactor on ozonation process. It was observed that increasing both gas and liquid flow rates by keeping their ratio constant provided higher organic removal efficiencies due to the higher mixing in the liquid phase. The dyes present in ITWW sample were known to be Basic Blue 41 (BB 41), Basic Red 18.1 (BR 18.1) and Basic Yellow 28 (BY 28). The “absorbance vs. concentration” calibration correlations were developed to estimate the amounts of these colored dyes in the ITWW sample. This provided the opportunity to examine the degradation of each dye in this wastewater separately. While PFOA catalyst was found to increase the removal efficiency of BY 28 at an acidic pH of 4, alumina yielded highest color removals for BB 41 and BR 18.1 at a pH of 12. The highest TOC and COD reductions being 24.4% and 29.5%, respectively, were achieved in the catalytic ozonation of the ITWW using alumina as the catalyst at a pH of 12 and at a gas to liquid flow rate ratio of 1.36 (QG = 340 L/h, QL = 250 L/h). At the same conditions, also the highest overall color removal in terms of Pt-Co color unit, namely 86.49%, were obtained due to the lower BY 28 concentration in the WW sample than those of the BB 41 and BR 18.1. In addition, the oxidation of BB 41, BR 18.1 and BY 28 dyes were investigated in a semi-batch reactor by sole and catalytic ozonations with alumina and PFOA catalyst particles. The sole and catalytic ozonation reactions followed a pseudo-first order kinetics with respect to dye concentration. The highest TOC and COD removals being 58.3% and 62.9%, respectively, were obtained at pH of 10 for BB 41 and 55.2% and 58.8%, respectively, for BR 18.1 with alumina catalyst. On the other hand, for BY 28 PFOA catalyst yielded highest TOC and COD reductions being 61.3% and 66.9%, respectively, at pH of 4.

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Chemical engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612861/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20288

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis