Nitrogen oxide in water was a critical factor of eutrophication. The poor tap-water quality in Taiwan was the result of ammonia nitrogen pollution. This research used manganese dioxide as the catalyst to degrade ammonia nitrogen content in water. Controlled factors in our experiment include basic test, optimal reaction condition test, and kinetics. Real water sample was drawn from the Love River for catalysis effect test. Results were then compared with the popularly used titanium dioxide.
Significant findings in this research include: 1) when the manganese dioxide content in water was 2%, the ammonia nitrogen removal rates were 31.80% under UV irradiation, and 22.21 % without light interference; 2) under UV irradiation, manganese dioxide would not affect the catalysis effect due to pH changes; 3) silicate in the water had catalysis effect, while sulfate, phosphate, and nitrate had inhibition effect; 4) manganese dioxide had catalysis effect in seawater, yet the removal rate would decrease as the salt content increases; 5) the rise of water temperature would enhance the ammonia nitrogen removal rate; 6) manganese dioxide had catalysis effect on the treatment of the Love River water, and the ammonia nitrogen removal rate reached 89.50 %; 7) in the biological test, manganese dioxide could effectively degrade the ammonia nitrogen content in water, and improve the survival rate of larval shrimp; 8) comparing to titanium dioxide, manganese dioxide had advantages of low cost, with catalysis effect in both seawater and fresh water under no light condition. As a result, manganese dioxide has significant future application potentials.
In the future, this research will conduct in-depth study on kinetics of degradability of manganese dioxide catalysis on ammonia nitrogen, and to design suitable catalytic reactor for water treatment. Moreover, it is of value to broadly research manganese dioxide related catalytic products, such as catalytic spray, catalytic paint, fluorescent tube, air filter, and catalytic fan...etc.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0725103-144001 |
| Date | 25 July 2003 |
| Creators | Chen, Chi-Ting |
| Contributors | Chun-Lan Huang, Lai Yang, Chitsan Lin, Ming-Shean Chou |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0725103-144001 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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