Catalytic supercritical water oxidation of wastewater from terephthalic acid manufacturing process

Tae Joon Park; Jong Sung Lim; Youn Woo Lee; Sung Hyun Kim

doi:10.1016/S0896-8446(02)00161-4

Catalytic supercritical water oxidation of wastewater from terephthalic acid manufacturing process

Tae Joon Park, Jong Sung Lim, Youn Woo Lee, Sung Hyun Kim

* Honorary professors

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Abstract

Catalytic oxidation of wastewater from terephthalic acid manufacturing plant has been accomplished in supercritical water. All experiments were performed in an isothermal tubular reactor at pressures from 220 to 300 bar, and temperatures from 418 to 513 °C. A commercial bulk γ-Al₂O₃ was used as a catalyst in a tubular reactor. At reactor entrance, the initial chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations of the wastewater were between 3.99 × 10^-3 and 2.81 × 10^-2 M; the COD concentrations of wastewater in feed tank were between 2400 and 14917 ppm. The oxygen concentrations at reaction conditions were between 1.4 × 10^-3 and 7.4 × 10^-3 M, which were the stoichiometric amount needed to oxidize wastewater completely to carbon dioxide. As a result of experiment, the conversion of wastewater was increased with higher wastewater feed concentration, the oxygen concentrations and contact times, and the power-law rate expression that best correlates the experimental results for the conversion of COD to CO₂ is rate = -2.67 × 10² exp(-55.456/RT)[COD]^0.81[O₂]^0.49.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	201-213
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Supercritical Fluids
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0896-8446(02)00161-4
Publication status	Published - 2003 Aug

Keywords

Catalytic oxidation
Chemical oxygen demand
Supercritical water oxidation
Terephthalic acid

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Chemical Engineering(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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