Hashim, KS, Kot, P, Al Khaddar, R and Shaw, A Decolourization of dye solutions by electrocoagulation: an investigation of the effect of operational parameters. In: The International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering Technologies (ICCEET), 23 April 2019 - 24 April 2019, University of Kufa, Iraq. (Accepted)

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Abstract

This study investigates the influence of the current density on both removal of reactive black 5 dye (RB5) from water and energy consumption using aluminium-based electrocoagulation (EC) reactor. The influence of the current density was investigated by electrolysing coloured water samples containing 25 mg/l of RB5 for 60 min at three different current densities (1, 2, and 3 mA/cm2). While the initial pH, distance between electrodes, flow rate, and initial temperature of water were kept constant at 5, 4 mm, 1 L/h, and 20 ± 10C, respectively. The obtained results showed that both the removal of RB5 dye and energy consumption increased with the increase of the applied current density. For example, it has been found that the removal RB5 and the power consumption increased from about 95% to 99.5%, and the power consumption increased from 4.3 to 10.4 kWh/m3 as the current density increased from 1 to 3 mA/cm2, respectively

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Civil Engineering (merged with Built Env 10 Aug 20)
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2019 13:42
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2022 15:17
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11000

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