Phenol removal from water by advanced oxidation process with Cu-based catalysts.

SACCO NICOLAS; BIDAL SOFÍA; DEVARD, ALEJANDRA; MARCHESINI, FERNANDA ALBANA

SANTA FE

Congreso; French Argentinean Workshop on Heterogeneous Catalysis; 2023

INCAPE

Water pollution is an important issue that directly affects human health and the environment. Most of the organic pollutants generated during different industrial processes are released directly into the environment, eventually affecting aquatic systems. In particular, phenols and their derivatives are a major focus of attention in the study of environmental pollution due to their toxicity and persistence [1]. The presence of these organic compounds in water involves serious risks to the health of living beings and aquatic environments. Therefore, it has become a necessity to remove them before disposal into the environment.In the last decade, the use of advanced oxidation processes AOP has been proposed as a complementary step in wastewater treatment plants to address the challenge of wastewater treatment and reuse. Despite the excellent performance in AOP, copper (Cu)-based catalysts present a drawback to be solved which consists in the leaching of the active phase to the reaction solution, which, in addition to deactivating the catalytic system, contaminates the water body being treated]. In this work, the influence of Cu precursors, and synthesis parameters on Cu leaching and phenol removal is studied