Cap??tulo de livro
Green water treatment for pharmaceutical pollution
Green Chemistry Applications
Registro en:
10.5772/intechopen.85116
5
0000-0002-7737-3732
Autor
ORTIZ, NILCE
Resumen
Environmental sustainability demands the advancement in water treatment and
the use of lighting natural resources. Brazil has one of the most stable and intense
solar irradiation in the world. It has to be used not only for energy generation
purposes but also and mostly for water treatment, water quality polishment, and
furthermore water disinfection. The chapter performs a comparison of different
green technologies for water treatment as natural solar irradiation, simulated solar
photolysis, solar photo-Fenton with and without hydrogen peroxide addition (solar/
Fe), solar photo-Fenton with and without peroxide (solar/Fe/H2O2), titanium
oxide-mediated photocatalysis (UV/TiO2), photolysis under UV irradiation, and
UV treatment with hydrogen peroxide (UV/H2O2). The chapter describes the solar
photodecomposition calculations for pharmaceuticals and the emerging pollutants
mostly found in polluted waters, including the decomposition route, kinetics, and
process parameters. Many published works to point out the important properties to
evaluate catalyzer and semiconductor materials after their use in photodecomposition
processes. The essay includes the solar photodecomposition of dyes, carbamazepine,
hormones, acetaminophen, antipyrine, bisphenol A, antibiotics, and
the photodecomposition by-products. Finally, the chapter presents the synergistic
effect between them with the probable mechanism and mineralization degree.