Trio Effects Portable Water Treatment System

The main motivation of the present work is the efficiency and the high cost of the three major water treatment techniques used in many industrial applications (oxidation, adsorption and air stripping). The present work introduced a novel and combined technique that merges between the three major water treatment techniques, namely: stripping, oxidation and adsorption that are suitable for domestic and rural areas use. The effectiveness of the present technique was experimentally tested with one of the chemical contaminants namely Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE). The experiments were conducted at different air flow rates 7, 8 and 10 (L/min), with difference residence time (2-20 min) at a different molar ratio of MTBE to hydrogen peroxide i.e. 1:10, 1:15 and 1:20. The results indicated that the optimum molar ratio between MTBE and hydrogen peroxide was 1:20 with air flow rate of 7 L/min, having the best performance (90%) to remove MTBE from the synthetic wastewater. From this research it can be concluded that, the overall design achieved the objectives. The combined system effectively removed MTBE from wastewater. The combined process should be able to solve the environmental problems and reduce pollutants in wastewater contained MTBE, before it is released to natural water sources.