 Comparative studies of H2O2

Solar assisted
photodegradation and
ozonation processes on dye
bath effleunt and Reactive
Red-180 azo dye.
 The AOP’s are processes that involve
oxidation which is done by creating short
lived Hydroxyl radicals(OH.) that attack
the substrate dye molecules to reduce
them to component small organic
species. These hydroxyl radicals are
nascent and are extremely reactive
where they posses a high oxidation
potential of 2.7 V.
 Reactive azo dyes are recalcitrant
towards the conventional treatment
methods and thus alternative processes
were to be analysed and compared
between to arrive at a conclusion based
on their efficiencies. Here, two such
AOP’s(Advanced Oxidation Processes)
were evaluated and their effectiveness
were investigated thus by concluding the
project.
 Results:
right: control dye

left: decolourised
dye solution
 Side arm flasks
 Colourimeter or a spectrophotometer
with a variable wavelength emitter.
 Hydrogen Peroxide (50% w/v)
 Reactive red-180 dye
 Phosphate buffer
 100% decolourisation was achieved in a
time of 7.5 hrs with an average sunlight
intensity of 80000 Lux.
 The irradiation experiments were
optimised and the optimisation results
were verified and it proves that the
optimisation results in 18% increase in
efficiency of decolourisation than the
non-optimised ones.
 Hydrogen peroxide concentration

 pH

 Initial dye concentration

 Experiments were performed in different
concentrations of H202 and since this
degradation process follows 1st order
kinetics a calibration curve was plotted to
get the concentration of dye at any time
‘t’.
 The rate constants at each concentration
was derived and a graph was plotted to
identify the maxima whose abscissa proved
to be the optimised H202 concentration.
 rate constant y = -2E-07x2 + 0.000x + 0.004
0.1

0.09

0.08

0.07

0.06

0.05
rate constant
0.04 Poly. (rate constant)

0.03

0.02

0.01

0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200

H202 concentration
 Different concentrations from 50 mg/l to 500 mg/l
were experimented on and it was concluded that
as lower the dye concentration gets the better is
the decolourisation rate.

50mg/l – 4.5 hrs 100mg/l – 6 hrs

 Results

Ozone treated control dye

dye sample sample
 Ozone generator
 Bubble column reactor(200ml)
 Ozone bubbler
 Reactive red-180 dye
 pH meter and colourimeter
 The Reactive Red-180 azo dye was seen
to completely decolourise within a time
period of 15 mins but when optimised
with the optimum conditions using
phosphate buffer was found to take
9mins 10s for complete colour removal.