Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management

Industrial development is pervasively connected with the disposal of number of toxic pollutants. Non-biodegradable Pollutants present in wastewater is a point of major concern in many countries. Such pollutants cannot be completely degraded by well established techniques like coagulation, flocculation, precipitation, adsorption, etc. The main objective of destructive oxidation processes is to mineralize organic contaminants, i.e., convert them to carbon dioxide, water and the oxidized inorganic anions of any heteroatom’s present. These processes frequently include the addition of oxidizing agents in the presence of a Catalyst or UV light. These types of processes are collectively called as AOP’s. The principal mechanism of AOP’s function is the generating free radicals capable of reaction. Titanium dioxide has been demonstrated to be excellent catalyst and its behavior is well documented in the literature.

Taking all these facts into consideration, in the present study, Photo degradation performed in the photo reactor equipped with UV tubes. Experiments were performed in tubular UV. The degradation of effluent has been investigated.