ELECTROCHEMICAL REMOVAL OF PHENOL FROM WASTEWATER

Abstract

Today, the problem of treatment of wastewater from industry is a serious concern. Strict rules are being introduced to maintain the necessity of developing and applying treatment technologies which can remove hazardous pollutants in a large number of industry waste streams. Various industries, such as textiles, leather, printing, laundry, tannery, rosier, rubber, plastic and paint produce a high volume of aqueous effluents that are discharged to water bodies (Díaz et al., 2007). Depending on the source, effluents may contain a number of chemicals such as metals, organic and inorganic compounds, oil and grease etc (Abou-Taleb et al., 2021).