Use of electromagnetic energy in removal of phenol compounds from the municipal wastewater

Abstract EN

Due to the importance of wastewater treatments and the urgent need for these processes, constructing treatment plants to get optimum efficiency of treating using alternative methods instead of conventional one is required.

Most modem methods of treatment of wastewater are using radiation as a new technology in observation and the treatment of municipal wastewater.

For these reasons radiation is used as a method in the treatment of industrial and municipal wastewater.

This study involves the removal of phenol concentrations from the treated municipal wastewater.

Gamma radiation (most powerful radiation in penetrating materials) is used in the removal of the phenol from the wastewater samples taken from the effluent of sedimentation tank of AL-Rustamia wastewater treatment plant.

Doses of radiation are used, such as 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 krad.

The final value is an average of the three samples for the same absorbing dose of radiation.

Most of the measurements are found in the acceptable range of Iraqi limits of these tests.

Phenolic samples were the most sensitive to the radiation, the values reach an acceptable concentration within the Iraqi limits of 0.01 - 0.05 mg/1, and the concentrations reach 0.0121, 0.0192 and 0.041 mg/1 at 500 krad.

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