UPGRADING OF MOROCCAN OLIVE MILL WASTEWATER USING ELECTROCOAGULATION: KINETIC STUDY AND PROCESS PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

  • Reda Elkacmi PhD Laboratoire d'ingénierie des Procédés et d'environnement Ecole Supérieure de Technologie de Casablanca - ESTC  Département Chimie et valorisation- Faculté des sciences Ain Chock Casablanca - Fsac Université Hassan II redakcm@gmail.com
  • Noureddine Kamil
  • Mounir Bennajah
Keywords: Olive mill wastewater, Electrocoagulation, COD, polyphenols, kinetic study, variable order kinetic

Abstract

Treatment of olive mill wastewater (OMW) by electrocoagulation (EC) was investigated in a stirred tank reactor (STR), the effect of different influential parameters, namely, contact time, current density and pH was determined. Over 72 % of COD, 93 % of polyphenols and 95 % of color intensity were removed efficiently at pH of 5.2, current density of 58.33 mA/cm2 and a residence time of 45 min. A kinetic study of these three parameters was carried out and both COD and dark color removal obey the first-order law model. On the other hand, the polyphenols reduction, fits the pseudo second-order model with current- dependent parameters. A variable order kinetic (VOK) model derived from the Langmuir-Freundlish equation was proposed to determine the kinetics of pollutant removal reactions with EC. Results showed that the model equations strongly fit the experimental concentrations of the three pollutants.
Published
2017-05-21
Issue
Vol 11, No 1 (2017)
Section
Articles
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