Clarificação química com coagulante PGα21Ca e fotocatálise heterogênea aplicada ao tratamento de efluente de curtume

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Rubilar, Cirdelene Sincoski
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Apucarana; Londrina; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Ambiental; UTFPR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Curtumes; Águas residuais - Purificação - Coagulação; Catálise heterogênea; Dióxido de titânio; Tanneries; Sewage - Purification - Coagulation; Heterogeneous catalyses; Titanium dioxide; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA SANITARIA; Engenharia Sanitária
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2279

Tanneries are industries that cause significant environmental impact, because they use a large volume of water in leather production and the total wastewater volume generated is normally similar to the total water caught. In addition, there is the use of several chemical compounds in leather processing, generating highly polluted wastewater with high COD, organic matter, suspended solids, dissolved salts and metals. Therefore, the efficient treatment of this type of wastewater is indispensable, in order to minimize its environmental impacts and to comply with the current legislation. Chemical clarification (coagulation / flocculation / decantation) is one of the most used steps in the treatment of tannery wastewater, it is still used coagulants based on aluminum and iron salts, but they have been proven to be toxic to the environment. In order to replace the inorganic coagullants, many researches with natural polymers have being developed. PGα21Ca was developed for this purpose. It is mainly composed of calcium sulphate and γ-polyglutamic acid, presenting high biodegradability and low toxicity. The present work had the objective of studying the treatment of tannery wastewater by chemical clarification with coagullant PGα21Ca and photocatalytic degradation using the TiO2. The ideal treatment conditions were determined using experimental design methodology and central rotational compound design (CCD). Under optimized conditions, chemical clarification presented removal of 75% of color, 61% of COD, 77% of turbidity, 94% of total chromium, 95% of trivalent chromium and 92% of hexavalent chromium. Thus, PGα21Ca was mainly efficient for chromium removal. Complete treatment process with chemical clarification and heterogeneous photocatalysis resulted in removal of 87% of color, 92% of COD, 91% of turbidity, 97% of total chromium, 98% of trivalent chromium and 94% of hexavalent chromium. Heterogeneous photocatalysis process contributed mainly to turbidity removal. This research proved the feasibility of usage of PGα21Ca for the treatment of tannery wastewater, considering it a good coagulant option due to the high yield and capacity for removal of organic and inorganic compounds.