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Ozone: Science & Engineering
The Journal of the International Ozone Association
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Original Article

UV-induced Persulfate Oxidation of Organic Micropollutants in Water Matrices

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Pages 13-23 | Received 29 Nov 2018, Accepted 21 Mar 2019, Published online: 09 Apr 2019
 

ABSTRACT

The efficacies of UV photolysis, UV-activated persulfate (UV/PS), and combined UV/Fe2+-activated persulfate (UV/PS/Fe2+) systems for degrading of different organic micropollutants in ultrapure water and groundwater were examined and compared. The studied micropollutants belonging to the different classes involved an artificial sweetener acesulfame K (ACE), beta-lactam antibiotic amoxicillin (AMX), and endocrine disrupting compound 4-nonylphenol (NP). Among the studied systems, the UV/PS/Fe2+ process showed the highest performance both in degradation and in mineralization of ACE (UVA-induced systems; kapp = 0.126 1/min and 80.3% TOC removal) and AMX (UVC-induced systems; kapp = 1.383 1/min and 85.4% TOC removal), followed by the UV/PS process. In the case of NP trials, the application of UVC/PS systems was the most promising, and after careful adjustment of oxidant concentration, it demonstrated a considerable improvement in the target compound degradation (at a NP/PS molar ratio of 1/4 kapp = 0.024 1/min) compared with the UVC photolysis (kapp = 0.016 1/min). Irrespective of the applied UV-induced treatment process, the efficacy of target compounds degradation was lower in groundwater as compared with ultrapure water trials.

Acknowledgments

The financial support provided by institutional research funding IUT (1–7) of the Estonian ministry of Education and Research is gratefully acknowledged.

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