Solar-based detoxification of phenol and p-nitrophenol by sequential TiO2 photocatalysis and photosynthetically aerated biological treatment

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1697-1704

  Essam, Tamer ^a,b   Aly Amin, Magdy ^b   El Tayeb, Ossama ^b   Mattiasson, Bo ^a   Guieysse, Benoit ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Advanced oxidation processes; Chlorella vulgaris; Industrial hazardous wastewater; Photobioreactor; Solar based wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTORS; DETOXIFICATION; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTEWATER; PHOTOBIOREACTORS; SOLAR-BASED WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

4 NITROPHENOL; CATECHOL; HYDROQUINONE; NITRATE; PHENOL; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTORS; DETOXIFICATION; PHENOLS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; GREEN ALGA; HAZARDOUS WASTE; OXIDATION; OXIDE; PHENOL; PHOTODEGRADATION; REACTION KINETICS; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AERATION; ALCALIGENES; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; DETOXIFICATION; IRRADIATION; MICROFLORA; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SAMPLING;

ALCALIGENES SP.; ARTHROBACTER SP.; CHLORELLA VULGARIS;

EID: 33947420138     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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