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Photodegradation applied to the treatment of phenol and derived substances catalyzed by TiO2/BiPO4 and biological toxicity analysis

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For this work, a phenol solution model was treated by an advanced oxidation process (AOPs), using the heterogeneous catalyst TiO2/BiPO4 and hydrogen peroxide combined with UVA for 240 min. An annular reactor containing a UVA lamp (80 W) was employed. A central composite rotacional design was developed employing a TiO2/BiPO4 concentration of 87 mg L−1 and a hydrogen peroxide concentration of 1800 mg L−1, being evaluated by the degradation percentage and phenol mineralization percentage as responses; 94.30 and 67.00 % were obtained for the phenol degradation and total organic carbon (TOC) conversion, respectively. The lumped kinetic model (LKM) was applied and a satisfactory profile of the residual fractions of the organic compounds present in the liquid phase as a time function with a determination coefficient (R 2 = 0.9945). The toxicity tests employing microbiological species indicated that the organisms tested for the evaluation of the toxic compounds present in the contaminated samples presented a practical low cost test, rapid execution, and high sensibility as an indicator of the presence of toxic substances in liquid effluents.

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The authors would like to express their upmost gratitude to PRH-28, CNPq/APQ, CNPq/INCTAA, FACEPE/NUQAAPE, CAPES/FCT/MES for financial support.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University Federal of Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Arthur de Sá, S/N, Cidade, Universitária, Recife, 50740-521, Brazil

    Léa Elias Mendes Carneiro Zaidan, Renata Vitória de Lima Sales, Júlia Barbosa de Almeida Salgado, Ana Maria Ribeiro Bastos da Silva, Daniella Carla Napoleão, Joan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz, Olga Martins Marques, Mohand Benachour & Valdinete Lins da Silva

  2. Instituto de Investigación, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Av. Urbina y Che Guevara, Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador

    Joan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz

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Zaidan, L.E.M.C., de Lima Sales, R.V., de Almeida Salgado, J.B. et al. Photodegradation applied to the treatment of phenol and derived substances catalyzed by TiO2/BiPO4 and biological toxicity analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 6002–6012 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5952-y

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