A study was undertaken of the regeneration of three activated carbons exhausted with ortho-chlorophenol. The regeneration process was carried out using liquid water at 623 K and 150 atm in the absence of oxygen. The efficiency of this procedure was analyzed by determining the rate and amount of ortho-chlorophenol adsorbed in successive adsorption-regeneration cycles. The present procedure showe...

Phenol and it derivatives are considered as one of the priority pollutants in waste water, because they are harmful to organisms even at very low concentrations. The control as well as removal of these organic compounds has become an important issue due to stringent measures introduced by various countries to enforce regulations concerning wastes originating from various industries. Hence, wast...

The effects of the presence of copper on the photooxidation of phenol and 4-chlorophenol and of the presence of the phenols on the recovery of copper by electrodeposition are studied in three systems: a photolytic cell in the presence and absence of TiO2 as a catalyst or H2O2 as an oxidant; an electrolytic cell and a combined photolytic-electrolytic system. The optimum system for the simultaneo...

Measurements of the hydrogen consumption threshold and the tracking of electrons transferred to the chlorinated electron acceptor (f(e)) reliably detected chlororespiratory physiology in both mixed cultures and pure cultures capable of using tetrachloroethene, cis-1, 2-dichloroethene, vinyl chloride, 2-chlorophenol, 3-chlorobenzoate, 3-chloro-4-hydroxybenzoate, or 1,2-dichloropropane as an elec...

For several years, our laboratory has isolated numerous bacterial strains from soils and wastewater contaminated with toxic compounds in order to find useful bacteria that can degrade phenolic compounds such as phenol, chlorophenol, and nitrophenol. By enrichment, many phenolic compound-degrading bacteria have been isolated (Bae et al., 1996a, b; Baek et al., 2001; Yoon et al., 1999, 2000). Fur...

BACKGROUND Chlorophenols are environmental contaminants, which are highly toxic to living beings due to their carcinogenic, mutagenic and cytotoxic properties. Bacterial degradation has been considered a cost-effective and eco-friendly method of removing chlorophenols, compared to the traditional physical-chemical processes. RESULTS In this study, we first developed an efficient process for t...

A defined mixed culture, consisting of an Arthrobacter sp. and a Micrococcus sp. and able to grow with 4-chloroacetophenone as a sole source of carbon and energy, was isolated. 4-Chlorophenyl acetate, 4-chlorophenol, and 4-chlorocatechol were identified as metabolites through comparison of retention times and UV spectra with those of standard substances. The proposed pathway was further confirm...

Aqueous-phase edsorption equilibrium and kinetic mechanism of phenol, 3-chlorophenol rnd o-cresol onto Norit Granular Activaied Caibon (NAC 1240) were studied in a batch system at temperature of 30 oC, agitation speed of 120 rpm, initial phenol concentrations of 25-200 mg/t. The elfects of initid phenol concentration and time of adsorption on phenol adsorption process were lnvestigated. The ads...

in this study, degradation of p-chlorophenol (p-cp) was evaluated using persulfate (ps) activated zerovalent iron (zvi) based ultraviolet (uv) in a bench scale photoreactor. the effect of operational parameters such as solution ph (3, 7, and 11), reaction time (0-60 minutes), zvi dosage (0.15, 1.25, 0.5, 1, and 1.5 mm), ps concentration (0.5, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, and 4 mm), and initial p-cp concentr...

Nanoscale bimetallic Ni/Fe particles were synthesized from the reaction of sodium borohydride (NaBH4) with reduction of Ni2+ and Fe2+ in aqueous solution. The obtained Ni/Fe particles were characterized by TEM (transmission electron microscope), XRD (X-ray diffractometer), and N2-BET. The dechlorination activity of the Ni/Fe was investigated using p-chlorophenol (p-CP) as a probe agent. Results...