Toxicity removal by Daphinia similis assay in BTEX contaminated groundwater using nanometric TiO2/ZrO2 film and black light.
Abstract: In this work, a photocatalytic tubular reactor, with a nanometric TiO2/ZrO2film, immobilized on glass substrate, was developed in order to investigate the degradation of volatile organic compounds, such as, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX ) in groundwater sample, under blac...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br:doc/1115475 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1115475 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Águas Subterrâneas Poluição da Água Composto Orgânico Toxidez Organic compounds Toxicity Groundwater contamination Benzene Toluene BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene) |
| Sumario: | Abstract: In this work, a photocatalytic tubular reactor, with a nanometric TiO2/ZrO2film, immobilized on glass substrate, was developed in order to investigate the degradation of volatile organic compounds, such as, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX ) in groundwater sample, under black light irradiation (365nm). The BTEX compound were determined by solid phase microextraction (SPME) technique and analyzed by Gas Chromatography - Ionization Flame Detection (CG -FID). The efficiency of photocatalytic process was evaluated by determination of BTEX removal and toxicity, using Daphnia similis as organism-test. The influence of the initial concentration of BTEX in the degradation process was investigated. The degradation process of sample groundwater contaminated with BTEX (145? g/L) from gasoline, resulted in 90% of efficiency after 120 minutes of treatment. The toxicity (EC50-48 h) of the groundwater sample to Daphnia similis was 14.1% (10.5-19.0) for untreated samples. After 30 min of treatment, the EC50-48 h was of 84.3 (71-100%).The benzene efficiency removal was reduced in function of the increase of its initial concentrations that observation was not found for the other compounds studied. |
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