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Destruction of representative submarine food waste using supercritical water oxidation

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In this study, 13 types of organic materials were oxidized using H2O2 in a continuous flow reactor under the condition of supercritical water. The effect of the operational parameters on the conversion of total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) was investigated, and the resulting quality of treated water was analyzed. It was found that these materials were easily oxidized with a TOC conversion achieving 99 % at temperature of 460 °C and TN conversion reaching 94 % at temperature of 500 °C. Rice decomposition was rapid, with TOC and TN decomposition rates of 99 % obtained within residence of 100 s at temperature of 460 °C. At temperature of 460 °C, pressure of 24 MPa, residence time of 100 s, and excess oxygen of 100 %, the quality of treated water attained levels commensurate with China’s Standards for Drinking Water Quality. Reaction rate equation parameters were obtained by fitting the experimental data to the differential equation obtained using the Runge–Kutta algorithm. The decrease of the TOC in water samples exhibited reaction orders of 0.95 for the TOC concentration and 0.628 for the oxygen concentration. The activation energy was 83.018 kJ/mol.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 030001, Taiyuan, People’s Republic of China

    Shiying Chen, Xuan Qu, Rong Zhang & Jicheng Bi

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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Chen, S., Qu, X., Zhang, R. et al. Destruction of representative submarine food waste using supercritical water oxidation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 4527–4533 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-3689-7

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