Electrooxidation of Industrial and Domestic Wastewaters by Various Electrodes

Tülin Yılmaz Nayır, Serdar Kara, Abdurrahman Akyol, Cevat Yaman

Abstract

This study provides electrooxidation (EO) performance comparison of produced

and commercial electrodes on treatment of textile, domestic and container washing
wastewaters. Four types of electrodes are produced by brushing Ru-Ir, Pb-Sn, Ir-
Ru-Pb, Ir-Ru-Sn on titanium. Three different electrodes such as Ru-Ir Ru-Ir-Sn
coated titanium electrodes and BDD are purchased. Experiments are done by using
response surface methodology four factors D-optimal design. Operating parameters
such as pH (4-8) and current density (10-100 mA.cm-2) are chosen as continuous
variables. Three types of wastewater and seven different electrodes are assigned as
categorical variables. Process performance is analyzed with an analysis of variance
(ANOVA) test, according to treatment results in terms of soluble chemical oxygen
demand (sCOD) and energy consumption. Results show that maximum COD
removal efficiency and minimum energy consumption per kg COD is achieved by
BDD anode for textile, domestic and container washing wastewaters. While
produced Ti-Ru-Ir electrode performance for COD treatment is similar to BDD, the
other commercial anodes show low COD removal efficiency with high-energy
consumption for three wastewater types.

Keywords: Electrooxidation, electrode production, D-optimal design,

wastewater treatment.