Published 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Remediation of polluted waters and wastewater by radiation processing

  • 1. Industrial Applications and Chemistry Section, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (International Organisation without Location)
  • 2. Institute of Isotopes, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
  • 3. Vienna (Austria)
  • 4. Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  • 5. Instit of Nuclearn Sciences, National Technical University, Quito (Ecuador)
  • 6. Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Water Authority of Jordan, Amman (Jordan)
  • 7. Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw (Poland)
  • 8. Department of Physics, Technological Niclear Institute, Sacavem (Portugal)
  • 9. EB-TECH Co., Ltd., Daejon (Korea, Republic of)
  • 10. Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Ankara (Turkey)
  • 11. Urban Water Research Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine (United States)
  • 12. Istitut of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity, National Research Council (Italy)

Description

Application of radiation processing for drinking water, wastewater, and groundwater treatment is a cost effective process which may insure adequate availability of that resource worldwide. This paper summarizes the results of a Coordinated Research Project (organized by the IAEA) with participants from 10 countries with the purpose of describing the degradation mechanism of organic impurities, and establishing optimal treatment conditions. Decoloration, disinfection, microbiological and toxicological experiments are also mentioned. These experiments led to pilot plants and also to a large scale industrial realization of radiation technology. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nukleonika
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
4
Series
42 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs.
Journal Page Range
p. 137-144
ISSN
0029-5922