An innovative photoreactor, FluHelik, to promote UVC/H 2 O 2 photochemical reactions: Tertiary treatment of an urban wastewater

An innovative photoreactor, FluHelik, was used to promote the degradation of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) by a photochemical UVC/H O process. First, the system was optimized for the oxidation of a model antibiotic, oxytetracycline (OTC), using both ultrapure water (UPW) and a real urban w...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2019-06, Vol.667, p.197
Main Authors: Espíndola, Jonathan C, Cristóvão, Raquel O, Araújo, Sara R F, Neuparth, Teresa, Santos, Miguel M, Montes, Rosa, Quintana, José B, Rodil, Rosario, Boaventura, Rui A R, Vilar, Vítor J P
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Summary:An innovative photoreactor, FluHelik, was used to promote the degradation of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) by a photochemical UVC/H O process. First, the system was optimized for the oxidation of a model antibiotic, oxytetracycline (OTC), using both ultrapure water (UPW) and a real urban wastewater (UWW) (collected after secondary treatment) as solution matrices. Following, the process was evaluated for the treatment of a UWW spiked with a mixture of OTC and 10 different pharmaceuticals established by the Swiss legislation at residual concentrations (∑CECs
ISSN:1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.335