Integrated UV photodegradation and anaerobic digestion of textile dye for efficient biogas production using zeolite

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Ochieng, Aoyi

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Author list: Apollo S, Onyango MS, Ochieng A

Publisher: Elsevier

Place: LAUSANNE

Publication year: 2014

Journal: Chemical Engineering Journal (1385-8947)

Journal acronym: CHEM ENG J

Volume number: 245

Start page: 241

End page: 247

Number of pages: 7

ISSN: 1385-8947

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

The efficiency of an integrated ultra-violet (UV) photocatalysis and anaerobic digestion (AD) system in the degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye was studied in up-flow fixed bed reactors. Zeolite was applied as support material for micro-organism and photocatalyst in the bioreactor and photoreactor, respectively. It was established that the application of either UV photodegradation or AD process as a single treatment method was not efficient in colour removal and chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction. The AD process as a stand-alone process could only remove 32% of the colour and 57% COD while photodegradation as a stand-alone process had a good performance on colour removal (70%) but low COD removal efficiency (54%). However, integration of the two processes led to high COD, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and colour reduction efficiencies of above 75%. Results show that UV pretreatment of MB before the AD step improved the biodegradability of the MB dye by 3-fold, this resulted in a 2.7-fold increase in biogas production as compared to a non-UV pre-treated MB. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Anaerobic digestion, Biodegradability, Dye, Photocatalysis, Zeolite

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