Influence of under pressure dissolved oxygen on trichloroethylene degradation by the H2O2/TiO2 process

Background: the widespread use of trichloroethylene (tce) and its frequent release into the environment hascaused many environmental and health problems. in this study the degradation of tce at different micromolarconcentrations was investigated in a stainless steel reactor with various concentrations of h2o2 and tio2 at differentoxygen pressures and three different phs.methods: to examine the synergistic effect of under pressure oxygen on tce degradation, the concentrations ofh2o2 and tio2 as well as ph were first optimized, and then the experiments were performed under optimalconditions. gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector (fid) was used to measure tce concentrations.results: results showed that the percentage of tce degradation without pressurized oxygen was low and itincreased with increasing pressure of oxygen at all initial concentrations of tce. the degradation percentageswithout oxygen pressure were 48.27%, 51.22%, 58.13% and 64.33% for tce concentrations of 3000, 1500, 300 and150 ?g/l respectively. at an oxygen pressure of 2.5 atmospheres (atm) the percent degradation of tce reached84.85%, 89.14%, 93.13% and 94.99% respectively for the aforementioned tce concentrations.conclusions: the results of this study show that the application of dissolved oxygen under pressure increases theefficiency of the h2o2/tio2 process on the degradation of tce and can be used along with other oxidants as aneffective method for the removal of this compound from aqueous solutions.