ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The New Mechanistic Model to Illustrate
the Complex Phenomena in Electrocoagulation
Process of Vinasse
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada,
Jl. Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa,
Jl. Jendral Soedirman Km 3, Cilegon 42435, Indonesia
Submission date: 2020-10-04
Final revision date: 2020-11-26
Acceptance date: 2020-11-26
Online publication date: 2021-05-27
Publication date: 2021-06-09
Corresponding author
Sarto Sarto
Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(4):3249-3259
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Electrocoagulation (EC) is one of potential methods in wastewater treatments. In treating
vinasse waste through EC, complex phenomena occur during EC process. Hence, previous authors
have developed mechanistic models, but the models have not illustrated the phenomena completely.
Therefore, the goal of this study is to build the new model of EC and apply the model to simulate the
EC phenomena in treating vinasse. Many parameters (current, pH, temperature, volume, anode weight
loss, dissolved Fe concentration, chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration, sludge mass and scum
mass) are considered in developing this model. The adjustable kinetic constants in this model are kcg,
α, β, ke, Af, Ef. The results show that this model can fit the measured data of EC of vinasse at various
voltages (7.5 and 12.5 V) with low Sum of Squares of Errors (SSE) value (0.0784-0.2758). The voltage
of 12.5 V results higher kcg, ke, Af and lower Ef values than 7.5 V.
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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.
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