Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
5-31-1987
Degree Name
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
First Advisor
Richard Clyde Parker
Second Advisor
David S. Kristol
Third Advisor
Howard S. Kimmel
Abstract
The effect of different treatments on the degradation of chlorinated organic pollutants in wastewater has been studied. The model compound investigated was para-chlorophenol. The different treatments used were ozone, UV irradiation, ultrasound, air flow and pure oxygen.
It is concluded that ozone has the greatest effect, ozone-UV irradiation follows closely behind, and UV irradiation has much less of an effect in degrading the p-chlorophenol.
P-chlorophenol was found to have an immeasureably slow degradation rate when treated with air even at an elevated temperature of 55°C.
The oxygen, at room temperature, showed a degradation of p-chlorophenol which, although small, was much greater than that of air at the higher temperature.
Recommended Citation
Cheng, Christine M., "The degradation of trace pollutants in wastewater" (1987). Theses. 1972.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/1972
