A hybrid MADM analysis in evaluating process of chemical wastewater purification regarding to advance oxidation processes

Abstract

Organic components, widely spread in water by industrial sources become emerging Contaminants in the water. Due deficient removal in conventional wastewater treatments, advanced treatment should be considered for industrial wastewaters removing. Advance oxidation processes (AOPs) can be used as an effective subset of chemical treatment for degradation of toxic from water in industrial processing plant. Two Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods based on hybrid SWARA-WASPAS are organized to investigate efficiency of different sort of AOPs: ozonation, fenton, electrochemical Oxidation, UV/Photo-catalysis, UV/H₂O₂. Based on MCDM, Fenton is the most possible AOPs for application in wastewater treatment areas. In this study, SWARA is deployed in evaluating criteria that were identified in literature review, and WASPAS is used for evaluating and ranking the methods. The main point of this study is based on real data.

Keywords:

• wastewater
• wastewater purification
• AOPs
• MCDM
• SWARA
• WASPAS

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Mohamad Reza Khodadadi

Mohamad Reza KHODADADI received his B.S degree in Chemical Engineering in 2012 and a Master degree in Nanochemistry in 2014. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Faculty of chemistry, Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France. Mohamad background and focus on chemistry and Nano technology has led him to tackle the various challenges in engineering, environment and sustainability.

Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani

Sarfaraz HAS HEMKHANI ZOLFANI is PhD candidate of Technology Foresight in Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). He is in cooperating with Futures Studies Research Institute of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) and Sustainability office of Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). He is part time research associate in council for futures studies, Iranian Academy of Sciences and adviser to the president, Iranian Society of Future Studies. He is Council member of International Association of Grey System and Uncertain Analysis (GSUA) and member of EURO Working Group OR in Sustainable Development and Civil Engineering. He is reviewer in journals like: Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Evaluation and Program Planning, Journal of Business Economics and Management, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, and etc. He is author of more than 50 scientific papers that presented, published or reviewed at/for International Conferences and Journals (including ISI-cited publications). He has published in journals such as: Expert Systems with Applications, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Journal of Business Economics and Management, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and etc. His research interests include: Performance Evaluation, Strategic Management, Decisionmaking Theory, Supply Chain Management, (Dynamic/Prospective) Multi Criteria Decision Making, Futures Studies, Sustainable Development and Game Theory.

Morteza Yazdani

Morteza YAZDANI is a PhD Scholar in Business Economic at Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain. His main research interests are application of multi criteria decision making in different fields as material science, supply chain management, construction management and also strategic planning. He is member of editorial board at International Journal of Business and Systems research (INDERSCIENCE) and reviewer of journal “Sustainability”. He has published in top international journals such as Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Expert Systems with Applications, Materials and Design and International Journal of Logistics Research and applications.

Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

Edmundas Kazimieras ZAVADSKAS. PhD, DSc, h.c.multi. Prof., the Head of the Department of Construction Technology and Management at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Smart Building Technologies. PhD in Building Structures (1973). DrSc in Building Technology and Management (1987). A member of Lithuanian and several foreign Academies of Sciences. Doctore Honoris Causa from Poznan, Saint Petersburg and Kiev universities. Honorary International Chair Professor of the National Taipei University of Technology. A member of international organizations; a member of steering and programme committees at many international conferences; a member of the editorial boards of several research journals; the author and co-author of more than 400 papers and a number of monographs in Lithuanian, English, German and Russian. The editor-in-chief of journals Technological and Economic Development of Economy and Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. Research interests: building technology and management, decision-making theory, automation in design and decision support systems.