Degradation of nitroaromatic compounds by homogeneous AOPs

FERNANDO S. GARCÍA EINSCHLAG*; LUCIANO CARLOS; DANIELA A. NICHELA

Waste Water (ISBN: 978-953-307-249-4)

InTech. Open Access Publisher

Lugar: Rijeka; Año: 2011; p. 215 - 240

The main objective of the chapter is to provide a comprehensive description of physicochemical phenomena that govern both the transformation rates of nitroaromatic pollutants and the overall degradation efficiencies during waste water treatments by different advanced oxidation procedures (AOPs) in homogeneous phase. The chapter summarizes the results obtained in studies related with the degradation of nitroaromatic compounds of environmental relevance by different homogeneous AOPs. Simple tools for describing the main kinetic features in different systems are presented. In addition, the influence of reaction conditions in the transformation pathways of nitrobenzene is discussed.