Author/Authors :
Rahmani، Ali Reza نويسنده Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health and Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran , , SAMARGHANDI، M.R. نويسنده , , Samadi، MT نويسنده Dept. of Environmental Health Engineering, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran , , Nazemi، F نويسنده Dept. of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Public Health and Center for Health Research, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Iran ,
Abstract :
Abstract
Background: There are great interests in photocatalytic oxidation of contaminants using titanium di-oxide in recent years. The main objective of this research was to study photocatalytic disinfection of Coli form bacteria as water microbial pollution index using TiO2 and a low pressure UV lamp in a batch re actor.
Methods: The polluted water was prepared by adding a colony of Coliform in raw water and in sepa-rate stages was contacted with UV, TiO2 and combination of them and various parameters such as con tact time, pH and amount of TiO2 were studied in terms of their effect on reaction progress.
Results: The results showed that in simultaneous presence of both UV ray and TiO2, there was the most effective disinfection of Coliform. This study showed that 100% of Coliform was killed by irra-diation for 60-75 min. in the presence of 0.8 gr l-1 TiO2 in pH=7.0.
Conclusion: Based on the results, UV/TiO2 process may be effectively applied for disinfection of pol-luted water and can be suggested as a effective purifying method for water disinfection.
