Degradation of Phenol in Wastewater with Ozone Produced by Self-design Ozone Generator

Kunming University of Science & Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, 650500 Yunnan, China

^a Corresponding author: qgflab@sina.com

Abstract

The optimized tube’s structure of the self-design ozone generator was made with the double dielectric inner electrode and small metal cones were embedded in the outside electrode. This ozone generator was used for the degradation of phenol in wastewater. The research was studied from ozone gas flow rate, reaction time, the initial pH and concentration of the phenol in wastewater. In addition, the article also discusses the reaction mechanism of ozone degraded the phenol in wastewater. The results illustrate that the ozone concentration of self-design ozone generator under the pure oxygen flux (1.0 L/min) were 7.06 mg/L, compared with the unoptimized ozone, the optimized ozone generator’s efficiency was improved 56.89%; the phenol removal rate was increased as the initial pH increased in wastewater, when pH was 12, the phenol removal rate was 80.17%; GC-MS analysis was adopted to analyze and determine the phenol intermediates. The results illustrate that the major oxidation degradation products of phenol may be p-benzoquinone benzenequinone, 4-cyclopentene-1, 3-dione and diacetone alcohol.