Investigação do uso do processo fenton no tratamento terciário de efluente agroindustrial e na degradação do antibiótico norfloxacina

Abstract

There is a growing presence of persistent compounds, such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, pesticides, cleaning products, and petroleum in industrial wastewaters to be toxic cause a lot of damage to the environment, when improperly discarded without undergo a treatment that makes them biodegradable. As a result, is increase of contamination of groundwater and surface water, sewage treatment plants and industrial wastewater . Because of this, new technologies capable of degrading this class of compounds, such as advanced oxidation processes, are being investigated, since the treatments most commonly used by industries, biological, are unable to degrade persistent compounds. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of applying an advanced oxidation process (Fenton) in the tertiary treatment of wasterwaters from a swine slaughterhouse, and the degradation of the antibiotic norfloxacin (NFX). In a first step, the agro-industrial wasterwater and wherein the operating parameters of the process Fenton reaction pH, ratio [H2O2]/[COD] (w / w) ratio [Fe + 2]/[H2O2] (w/w) pH and coagulation were investigated depending on the removal efficiency of organic matter, through the evaluation of chemical oxygen demand (COD). In a first step the parameters were investigated by means of tests defined in 24-1 fractional factorial design with three replications at the center point and, after the definition of significant parameters (p≤0.05), pH and coagulation ratio [Fe + 2]/[H2O2] (w/w), these were again investigated by means of the rotational central composite design (RCCD) 22 with three center points and four axial points. The maximum COD removal achieved was 67.71%. Subsequently we performed a study in which the antibiotic norfloxacin was subjected to treatment by the Fenton process. The variables [H2O2], and [Fe 2 +] was investigated by means of a RCCD 22design with three center points and four axial points. Process efficiency was evaluated according to the percentage of degradation of the drug assessed from its concentration in the process. The maximum degradation of the drug achieved was 96.41% for reaction time of 5 if, after 10 s of reaction to NFX was no longer detected. The evaluation of the degradation kinetics of norfloxacin by Fenton process was investigated and the behavior of the pseudo-second order was observed. From analysis of the results obtained with satisfactory removal of organic matter and norfloxacin the Fenton process, it can be concluded that in general this process is promising for tertiary treatment of agroindustrial wasterwater for the purpose of degradation of the biological treatment persistent compounds usually employed in the food industries.