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
• 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.
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