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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART A-TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 51, Issue 12, Pages 997-1002Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2016.1198140
Keywords
Advanced oxidation processes; Fenton reaction; gamma radiation; paracetamol; process intensification
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- project TATARCOP of Instituto Superior de Tecnologias y Ciencias Aplicadas (InSTEC), Cuba
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Degradation of paracetamol (N-(4-hydroxiphenyl)acetamide) in aqueous solution by gamma radiation, gamma radiation/H2O2 and gamma radiation/Fenton processes was studied. Parameters affecting the radiolysis of paracetamol such as radiation dose, initial concentration of pollutant, pH and initial oxidant concentration were investigated. Gamma radiation was performed using a Co-60 source irradiator. Paracetamol degradation and mineralization increased with increasing absorbed radiation dose, but decreased with increasing initial concentration of the drug in aqueous solution. The addition of H2O2 resulted in an increased effect on irradiation-driven paracetamol degradation in comparison with the performance of the irradiation-driven process alone: paracetamol removal increased from 48.9% in the absence of H2O2 to 95.2% for H2O2 concentration of 41.7mmol/L. However, the best results were obtained with gamma radiation/Fenton process with 100% of the drug removal at 5kGy, for optimal H2O2 and Fe2+ concentrations at 13.9 and 2.3mmol/L, respectively, with a high mineralization of 63.7%. These results suggest gamma radiation/H2O2 and gamma radiation/Fenton processes as promising methods for paracetamol degradation in polluted wastewaters.
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