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Monitoring of phenol photodegradation by ultraviolet spectroscopy
1Laboratoire Génie de l'Environnement Industriel, Ecole des Mines d'Alès, 6 avenue de Clavières, 30319 Alès Cedex, France. benoit.roig@ema.fr
Abstract:
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been developed as an emerging technology for hazardous organic treatment in industrial wastewater. In this paper, the contribution of ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy to follow phenol photodegradation was studied in a laboratory photochemical reactor equipped with a low pressure mercury lamp. It has been observed that a multicomponent approach is efficient for the evolution estimation of the initial product or intermediate compounds formed during the photodegradation.
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