TY - JOUR
T1 - Degradation of 3-nitro-1,2,4-trizole-5-one (NTO) in wastewater with UV/H2O2 oxidation
AU - Terracciano, Amalia
AU - Christodoulatos, Christos
AU - Koutsospyros, Agamemnon
AU - Zheng, Zhaoyu
AU - Su, Tsan Liang
AU - Smolinski, Benjamin
AU - Arienti, Per
AU - Meng, Xiaoguang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/12/15
Y1 - 2018/12/15
N2 - Insensitive Munition (IM) formulations contain 3-nitro-1,2,4-trizole-5-one (NTO), an energetic compound with the highest aqueous solubility (16 g L−1) among all IM explosives, including 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) and 1-nitroguanidine (NQ); as a result wastewater streams from IM processing facilities can be highly contaminated and potentially toxic. The removal of energetic compounds from wastewater streams prior to their discharge in the environment is imperative, and new technology must be developed to efficiently treat high levels of NTO and other IM compounds in these streams. In this study, the treatment of NTO wastewater by a UV/H2O2 oxidation process under acidic conditions (pH = 3.0 ± 0.1) and a hydrogen peroxide concentration of at least 1500 mg L−1 resulted in successful removal of the energetic compound. The organic carbon from the NTO ring was completely converted to inorganic carbon (CO2), as confirmed through TOC measurements and GC–MS analysis on the reactor headspace. Nitrate and ammonium ions were the major nitrogen by-products, as indicated by mass spectrometry. The results obtained in this work demonstrate that the UV/H2O2 oxidation process can effectively mineralize high concentrations of NTO in wastewater streams leading to recovery of valuable nutrients that can be used for supporting algal biomass growth for biofuel/biogas generation.
AB - Insensitive Munition (IM) formulations contain 3-nitro-1,2,4-trizole-5-one (NTO), an energetic compound with the highest aqueous solubility (16 g L−1) among all IM explosives, including 2,4-dinitroanisole (DNAN) and 1-nitroguanidine (NQ); as a result wastewater streams from IM processing facilities can be highly contaminated and potentially toxic. The removal of energetic compounds from wastewater streams prior to their discharge in the environment is imperative, and new technology must be developed to efficiently treat high levels of NTO and other IM compounds in these streams. In this study, the treatment of NTO wastewater by a UV/H2O2 oxidation process under acidic conditions (pH = 3.0 ± 0.1) and a hydrogen peroxide concentration of at least 1500 mg L−1 resulted in successful removal of the energetic compound. The organic carbon from the NTO ring was completely converted to inorganic carbon (CO2), as confirmed through TOC measurements and GC–MS analysis on the reactor headspace. Nitrate and ammonium ions were the major nitrogen by-products, as indicated by mass spectrometry. The results obtained in this work demonstrate that the UV/H2O2 oxidation process can effectively mineralize high concentrations of NTO in wastewater streams leading to recovery of valuable nutrients that can be used for supporting algal biomass growth for biofuel/biogas generation.
KW - MS
KW - Mineralization
KW - NTO
KW - Oxidation
KW - UV/HO
KW - pH and HO effects
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.216
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2018.07.216
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058478259
SN - 1385-8947
VL - 354
SP - 481
EP - 491
JO - Chemical Engineering Journal
JF - Chemical Engineering Journal
ER -