Robert W. Peters, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1075 13th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35294-4440 and Yusuf G. Adewuyi, Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 1601 East Market Street, 326 McNair Hall, Greensboro, NC 27411.
This investigation addresses the process interactions from advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) in combination with other unit treatment operations (such as other AOPs, biological operations, air stripping, etc.). AOPs considered include: Fenton's reagent, ultraviolet light (UV), ozone (O3), hydrogen peroxide, sonication/acoustic cavitation, among others. A critical review of the technical literature (involving numerous organic chemicals destruction) has been performed, and the data has been analyzed in terms of the processes being additive, synergistic, or antagonistic. Predictions based upon of the individual unit operations are made and compared against the behavior of the combination unit operations.