Use of dye sensitized photooxidation is potentially a low cost means of degrading many of the hazardous compounds found in wastewaters. This study investigated the use of methylene blue as a sensitizer to degrade ortho-, meta-, and para-cresol, carbofuran and acrylonitrile.
Significant reductions were found when aqueous solutions of the cresol isomers and carbofuran were illuminated and aerated in the presence of methylene blue. An average of 78% reduction of cresol was observed in seven hours. Carbofuran showed an average percent reduction of 56% in two hours. No loss was observed when the dye was absent. Acrylonitrile was found to be volatile and was stripped from solution by aeration. / M.S.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/105997 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Lehnig, Dale E. |
| Contributors | Sanitary Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | vii, 115 leaves, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 10773962 |
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