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Zohreh Moghiseh1, Abbas Rezaee1, Somayyeh Dehghani1
1Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of alternating current (AC) on phenol removal in a microbial electrochemical system (MES) and determine its by-products. The bioreactor used for this purpose operates in the batch mode supplied with an AC power supply. The factors stimulating this process including frequency, applied voltage, duty cycle, carbon to nitrogen ratio, and the initial phenol concentration were investigated. The optimum operating conditions of the bioreactor were obtained at 5 Hz frequency, 0.4 peak-to-peak voltage (Vpp), C0 = 100 mg.L-1 phenol, pH = 7, C/N = 1, and the sine wave. Phenol was completely degraded under the optimum operating conditions for 2 h. The GC-MS analysis showed the presence of carboxylic acid, oxalic acid, and propionic acid. It was observed that the generated by-products are non-toxic and phenol is completely removed to nontoxic compounds. The results show that under optimum conditions, using an alternating current, the proposed system generated low-hazard byproducts with a low energy consumption.
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