Treatability Study on COD Reduction using Advanced oxidation Process for Active pharmaceutical Ingredient Effluent

Abstract

Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) is the emerging technology used for site remediation. two different
oxidants are being used for this technology, i.e., Hydrogen peroxide, and sodium Persulfate. Mostly being used is
catalyzed hydrogen peroxide among all because of its efficiency to remediate and is also less costly. The objective of this
paper is Pharmaceutical API wastewater sample using Catalyzed Hydrogen Peroxide. Different concentrations of
peroxide were tested.. The present study showed that catalysed hydrogen peroxide can be effective to decolorize and
demineralize the groundwater and used for Wastewater treatment. The experimental results indicate that during Fenton’s
oxidation, COD reduction was faster than degradation .The rate of oxidation was influenced by dose of Fe2+, H2O2,. The
optimum conditions required for maximum degradation were 32.53g/L of H2O2 and accordingly Fe2+ dose. Fe2+ added
is 5-25 parts wt/wt to hydrogen peroxide. This investigation has demonstrated the potential of applying Fenton’s process
for the treatment of Wastewater.