Sub/supercritical water oxidation of high concentration wastewater from tall oil rosin production base. Issue 4 (18th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Miao, Rongrong; Wang, Minli; Shen, Junjun; Ning, Ping; Gu, Junjie; Guan, Qingqing; Chen, Qiuling; Chai, Xinsheng
• Is Part Of: Environmental progress & sustainable energy. Volume 35:Issue 4(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 975
• Page End: 981
• Publication Date: 2016-01-18
• Subjects: SCWO -- kinetics -- wastewater -- rosin -- TOC; Environmental engineering -- Periodicals; Sustainable engineering -- Periodicals; Environmental chemistry -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.12303
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1944-7442

Abstract

Abstract : The sub/supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) of wastewater with high concentrations of pollutants from tall oil rosin production base was studied under the temperature range of 320°C–420°C and the pressure range of 11–25 MPa. The results showed that after pretreatment with Ca(OH)2 for SO 4 2 − ions removal, around 385 mg/L SO 4 2 − remained which inhibited the oxidation activity by reducing the concentration of hydroxyl radicals (OH). Since the wastewater compounds were mainly cyclic organic materials, higher O2 contents (stoichiometric ratio over 2.5) and temperatures (over 380°C) are favorable for TOC removal. With O2 SR = 2.5 and T = 420°C, the TOC removal reached almost 100% (99.89%) in 30 min. A global kinetic model for TOC removal during SCWO treatment was built during the research. The kinetic data acquired through the model were fitted to a power‐law function, and the data correlated well with the experimental data. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 35: 975–981, 2016