Tratamento de efluente da indústria de coco utilizando os processo de Fenton e eletroquímico

Abstract

Nowadays, the food industry is one of activities that fastest growing on the planet due to the demand for food, which ends up generating a lot of waste solids, liquids and gases that can contaminate / pollute water and soil. One of the food industry which generates a significant amount of waste is the coconut processing industry. In order to minimize the environmental impact is necessary to use some techniques in treatment of this wastewater that are efficient and economically viable. Between these techniques currently being studied, Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) have received considerable attention due to the high efficiency in wastewater treatment and low operating cost. Among the AOPs, the application of the Fenton reaction and the Electrochemical process has been outstanding. These techniques have low toxicity and high efficiency for the mineralization of most organic pollutant compounds. However, due to the complexity of some effluents, the application of a single technique is not sufficient to adjust the effluent for disposal, thus, the association of the electrochemical technology and the Fenton reaction makes the process still more promising. The objective of this study was to evaluate the application of the Fenton reaction and the electrochemical process to treat wastewater generated by the coconut industry by applying the individual processes and associates. In this study was treated a synthetic wastewater composed of a mixture of coconut milk / water, and it was evaluated the influences of the Fenton reactants concentration, the cathode material used, the applied current density, and applying the individual technologies, associated (one after the other) or both carried out simultaneously. The results confirmed the efficiency of individual technologies for the treatment of effluent and were obtained the reduction of 99%, 88% and 86% for turbidity, COD and TOC, respectively, for the reaction Fenton followed by sedimentation; and 93% and 75% for turbidity and COD, respectively, for the electrochemical process employed DSA as cathode and anode. The associated technologies the reductions were 96%, 86% and 82% for turbidity, COD and TOC, respectively, for the system DSA / carbon + Fenton reactions. Therefore, the results indicate that both the individual and the associated technologies are quite effective in treating the effluent from the coconut processing industry .