ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Removing Phenols from Post-Processing
Wastewater Originating from Underground Coal
Gasification Using Coagulation-Flocculation
and the H2O2/UV Process
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Chemiqua Company, Kraków, Poland
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Central Mining Institute, Department of Water Protection, Katowice, Poland
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AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, Kraków, Poland
Submission date: 2017-06-27
Final revision date: 2017-12-08
Acceptance date: 2017-12-17
Online publication date: 2018-06-25
Publication date: 2018-07-09
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Dariusz Zdebik
Główny Instytut Górnictwa, Pl. Gwarków 1, 40-166 Katowice, Poland
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(6):2757-2763
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ABSTRACT
Our paper presents the possibility of phenol removal from post-processing wastewater originating
from an experimental simulation of the underground coal gasification process carried out in the
Barbara Experimental Mine in Mikołów, Poland. The application of initial coagulation-flocculation
processes with iron(II), iron(III), aluminium, titanium(IV), and zirconium(IV) and anionic
flocculant has allowed phenols removal from 7.9% (pH 8, Zr4+ 400 mg/L) to 22.2% (for pH 8, Fe2+
800 and 1,000 mg/L and for pH 8, Fe3+ 1,000 mg/L). The application of the coagulation-flocculation
process and advanced oxidation in the H2O2/UV system resulted in a total reduction of phenolic
concentrations in the treated wastewater by about 93% due to their reaction with OH• radicals, resulting
from the UV rays impact on H2O2.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.