Journal
COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 264-273Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2018.03.016
Keywords
Wastewater treatment; Integrated process: Trickle bed reactor; Reverse osmosis (RO); Phenol rejection; Modelling
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Phenol and phenolic derivatives found in different industrial effluents are highly toxic and extremely harmful to human and the aquatic ecosystem. In the past, trickle bed reactor (TBR), reverse osmosis (RO) and other processes have been used to remove phenol from wastewater. However, each of these technologies has limitations in terms of the phenol concentration in the feed water and the efficiency of phenol rejection rate. In this work, an integrated hybrid TBR-RO process for removing high concentration phenol from wastewater is suggested and model-based simulation of the process is presented to evaluate the performance of the process. The models for both TBR and RO processes were independently validated against experimental data from the literature before coupling together to make the hybrid process. The results clearly show that the combined process significantly improves the rejection rate of phenol compared to that obtained via the individual processes. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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