Sh. Lin et al., KINETIC AND PERFORMANCE-CHARACTERISTICS OF WET AIR OXIDATION OF HIGH-CONCENTRATION WASTE-WATER, Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 35(1), 1996, pp. 307-314
Treatment of high-concentration wastewater from a chemical company by
wet air oxidation (WAO) is studied. Experiments were conducted to inve
stigate the effects of the operating pressure and temperature on the c
hemical oxygen demand (COD) removal. Both air and oxygen were employed
as the oxygen supply for the WAO treatment process. Catalytic effects
of copper sulfate, cobalt oxide, and zinc oxide on the WAO efficiency
were also examined. It was found that over 50% of COD removal can be
easily realized in an hour of WAO oxidation. Two kinetic models (first
-order and generalized) were employed to represent the experimental da
ta, and their fit to those experimental data was compared. The rate co
efficients and the kinetic parameters of the two models were determine
d also.