RESEARCH ARTICLE
Pollutant and Microorganism Removal From Water by Hydrodynamic Cavitation
Zhimeng Liu, Mengfu Zhu*, Cheng Deng, Hongbo Su, Ping Chen, Zheng Wang*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2016Volume: 10
First Page: 258
Last Page: 264
Publisher ID: TOBIOTJ-10-258
DOI: 10.2174/1874070701610010258
Article History:
Received Date: 8/04/2016Revision Received Date: 29/4/2016
Acceptance Date: 13/6/2016
Electronic publication date: 26/07/2016
Collection year: 2016
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Abstract
Hydrodynamic cavitation can effectively remove organic pollutants and microorganisms from water. Organic compound degradation and water disinfection removal rate is related to reaction time and operating temperature. Removal rate can be improved by increasing the reaction time or raising the operating temperature. Under our experimental conditions, the removal rate of colority, COD and petroleum pollutants was 80.0%, 72.13% and 70.00%, respectively. In addition, Escherichia coli removal rate was higher than 99.99%. As a new water treatment process, hydrodynamic cavitation can be utilized alone or in combination with other water treatment processes, showing broad application prospects.