Pesticide wastewater treatment using the combination of the microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell and Fenton process

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Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2020, Vol. 14

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Pesticide wastewater treatment using the combination of the microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell and Fenton process

Songwei Lin, Yaobin Lu, Bo Ye, Cuiping Zeng, Guangli Liu(

), Jieling Li, Haiping Luo, Renduo Zhang

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Abstract

• MEDCC combined with Fenton process was developed to treat real pesticide wastewater.

• Pesticide removal was attributable to desalination in the MEDCC.

• High COD removal was attributable to organic distributions in different chambers.

The combination of the microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell (MEDCC) and Fenton process for the pesticide wastewater treatment was investigate in this study. Real wastewater with several toxic pesticides, 1633 mg/L COD, and 200 in chromaticity was used for the investigation. Results showed that desalination in the desalination chamber of MEDCC reached 78%. Organics with low molecular weights in the desalination chamber could be removed from the desalination chamber, resulting in 28% and 23% of the total COD in the acid-production and cathode chambers, respectively. The desalination in the desalination chamber and organic transfer contributed to removal of pesticides (e.g., triadimefon), which could not be removed with other methods, and of the organics with low molecular weights. The COD in the effluent of the MEDCC combined the Fenton process was much lower than that in the perixo-coagulaiton process (<150 vs. 555 mg/L). The combined method consumed much less energy and acid for the pH adjustment than that the Fenton.

Keywords Pesticide wastewater COD removal Microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell Energy consumption Fenton oxidation

Corresponding Author(s): Guangli Liu

Issue Date: 14 November 2019

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Songwei Lin,Yaobin Lu,Bo Ye, et al. Pesticide wastewater treatment using the combination of the microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell and Fenton process[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2020, 14(1): 12.

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Fig.1 The schematic diagram of the combination of microbial electrolysis desalination and chemical-production cell (MEDCC) and the Fenton process.

Fig.2 COD removals using (a) coagulation; and (b) peroxi-coagulaiton processes in the raw pesticide wastewater; and (c) the Fenton process in the pretreated pesticide wastewater with different ratios of Fe²⁺ to H₂O₂ molar concentrations (pH= 3.0, [H₂O₂] = 60 mmol/L).

Fig.3 (a) Current densities, (b) conductivities, and (c) pH values in different chambers of the MEDCC fed with pesticide wastewater pretreated using coagulation.

Fig.4 Concentrations of (a) Na⁺, (b) K⁺, (c) Ca²⁺, (d) Cl^-, (e) SO₄²^-, and (f) desalination in the desalination chamber of MEDCC.

Tab.1 The COD values and removal efficiencies in different chambers in the MEDCC and Fenton oxidation

Tab.2 Energy consumption in the MEDCC to treat pesticide wastewater

Fig.5 Scanning electron microscopy images of (a) anion exchange membrane (AEM) and (b) cation exchange membrane (CEM), and the energy dispersive spectrometer results of (c) AEM and (d) CEM in the MEDCC.

Fig.6 (a) Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS) spectra on the raw pesticide wastewater; and MS spectra on (b) chlorpyrifos, (c) triadimefon, (d) flusilazole, (e) N-dimethyldecanamide, (f) tebuconazole, (g) fenpropathrin, (h) cypermethrin, and (i) prochloraz.

Fig.7 Mass spectrometry results of the gas chromatography – mass spectrometry analysis on (a) effluent from coagulation, (b) effluent from the desalination chamber of MEDCC, (c) effluent from the acid-production chamber of MEDCC, (d) effluent from the alkali-production chamber of MEDCC, and (e) effluent from the Fenton oxidation process.

Tab.3 Organic compounds in the wastewater identified based on the gas chromatography – mass spectrometry analysis

Fig.8 Fates of pesticides and COD in the MEDCC combined with Fenton process.

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