RESEARCH ARTICLE
Modeling the Photocatalytic Process of Variation in Chemical Oxygen Demand via Stochastic Differential Equations
Adriano F. Siqueira*, Oswaldo L. C. Guimaraes, Helcio J. Izario Filho, Domingos S. Giordani, Ivy dos Santos Oliveira, Henrique Otavio Queiroz de Aquino, Messias Borges Silva
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 7
First Page: 1
Last Page: 8
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-7-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874123101307010001
Article History:
Received Date: 17/05/2011Revision Received Date: 13/07/2012
Acceptance Date: 18/07/2012
Electronic publication date: 5/4/2013
Collection year: 2013
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Abstract
Several papers in the literature on Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) confirm the process as a viable alternative for the treatment of a variety of industrial effluents. In many of these works, modeling the variations of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) as a function of different experimental conditions was performed by techniques such as Design of Experiments, Artificial Neural Networks and Multivariate Analysis. These techniques require both a large number of parameters and a large quantity of experimental data for a systematic study of the model parameters as a function of experimental conditions. On the other hand, the study of Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE) is presently well developed with several practical applications noted in the literature. This paper presents a new approach in studying the variations of COD in AOPs via SDE. Specifically, two effluents, from the manufacture of paints and textiles were studied by combined treatment of the photo-Fenton process and catalytic ozonization.
