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Title: Evaluation of the technical feasibility of the packed tower advanced oxidation process for the removal and destruction of contaminants from water. Final report, 1 May 1990--31 December 1994

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:299926

This final report describes the research work done to investigate the behavior of a packed column contactor as an ozonation reactor for destruction of organic contaminants in groundwater treatment. Both a laboratory and pilot-scale column have been used during experiments to gather scale up information for such a system. The columns have been operated in either cocurrent and counter current mode using trichloroethylene (TCE) at low ppm levels in water as the contaminant. The TCE removal and destruction has been measured as a function of gas to liquid (G/L) ratio, contacting pattern, and ozone concentration. Using the experimental results and literature information, mathematical modeling has been done to describe and simulate the system behavior.

Research Organization:
Michigan Technological Univ., Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Houghton, MI (United States)
OSTI ID:
299926
Report Number(s):
AD-A-355310/XAB; CNN: Contract F08635-90-C-0063; TRN: 83650084
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English