Essadki, Abdel Hafid and Gourich, Bouchaib and Vial, Christophe and Delmas, Henri and Bennajah, Mounir
Defluoridation of drinking water by electrocoagulation/electroflotation in a stirred tank reactor with a comparative performance to an external-loop airlift reactor.
(2009)
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 168 (1-3). 1325-1333. ISSN 0304-3894
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.JHAZMAT.2009.03.021
Abstract
Defluoridation using batch electrocoagulation/electroflotation (EC/EF) was carried out in two reactors for comparison purpose: a stirred tank reactor (STR) close to a conventional EC cell and an external-loop airlift reactor (ELAR) that was recently described as an innovative reactor for EC. The respective influences of current density, initial concentration and initial pH on the efficiency of defluoridation were investigated. The same trends were observed in both reactors, but the efficiency was higher in the STR at the beginning of the electrolysis, whereas similar values were usually achieved after 15 min operation. The influence of the initial pH was explained using the analyses of sludge composition and residual soluble aluminum species in the effluents, and it was related to the prevailing mechanisms of defluoridation. Fluoride removal and sludge reduction were both favored by an initial pH around 4, but this value required an additional pre-treatment for pH adjustment. Finally, electric energy consumption was similar in both reactors when current density was lower than 12 mA/cm2, but mixing and complete flotation of the pollutants were achieved without additional mechanical power in the ELAR, using only the overall liquid recirculation induced by H2 microbubbles generated by water electrolysis, which makes subsequent treatments easier to carry out.
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HAL Id: | hal-03562712 |
Audience (journal): | International peer-reviewed journal |
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Institution: | French research institutions > Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE) Université de Toulouse > Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE) Other partners > Université Hassan II Casablanca - UH2C (MOROCCO) Université de Toulouse > Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE) Other partners > Université Blaise Pascal - UBP (FRANCE) |
Laboratory name: | Laboratoire de Génie Chimique et Biochimique (Aubière, France) Laboratoire de Génie Chimique - LGC (Toulouse, France) - Réaction, mélange & séparation (RMS) |
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Deposited On: | 18 Jun 2012 07:54 |
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