DISCOLORATION OF METHYL ORANGE BY FENTON PROCESS

  • Carlos Gamarra Güere Autor
  • Adolfo La Rosa-Toro Gómez Autor
Keywords: Fenton, discoloration, oxidation, environmental remediation

Abstract

In Peru only treat 29.1% of urban domestic wastewater is performed. This treatment is carried out at 143 industries, pouring the rest into rivers, lakes and the sea, so it is necessary to give more importance to the management of water resources. The textile industry, which uses large amounts of dye pigments not properly treat their effluents, being part of the problem. The Fenton process is an alternative for the treatment of effluents from the dyeing process, the most important pollutant azo compounds. The Fenton process provides the ability to reuse and / or recycle water with high efficiency (86%) in a few minutes.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Gamarra Güere, Autor

Bachelor of Chemistry, Laboratory of Applied Electrochemistry Faculty of Sciences, University
National Engineering e-mail: carlosgamarra@iqsc.usp.br  

Adolfo La Rosa-Toro Gómez, Autor

Principal Professor and Head of the Research Laboratory in Applied Electrochemistry of the Faculty
of Sciences, National University of Engineering. Av. Túpac Amaru 210, Rímac e-mail:
toro@uni.edu.pe

Published
2014-03-31