ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Efficient Removal and Conditions Optimization
of Textile Dyes Using UV/TiO2 Based Advanced
Oxidation Process
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Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan
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Department of Chemistry, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
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Department of Chemistry, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,
P.O. Box 84428, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
Submission date: 2022-12-01
Final revision date: 2023-01-26
Acceptance date: 2023-01-28
Online publication date: 2023-03-10
Publication date: 2023-05-18
Corresponding author
Arif Nazir
Department of Chemistry, The University of Lahore, Lahore, 1-Km Raiwind Road, Lahore, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(3):2465-2471
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Textile and other dye house effluents from different industries have many worst effects on aquatic
as well as non-aquatic life. The present work was carried out for the conditions optimization of
degradation of Allura Red AC dye. This was done by UV treatment and examining the effects of
different parameters on degradation i.e. pH, concentration of the dye, temperature, radiation exposure
time and concentration of TiO2. The efficiency of the treatment was monitored by checking the
highest degradation value, parameters of water quality such as chemical oxygen demand (COD),
biological oxygen demand (BOD) and toxicity. The end products of degradation of dye were checked
out by UV/visible spectrophotometer, Fourier transform- infra red (FT-IR) and gas chromatographymass
spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques. From the results, it was concluded that the degradation
efficiency was in the order UV/H2O2/TiO2> UV/H2O2> UV alone. Furthermore, it was also concluded
that UV/H2O2/TiO2 could be implemented on industrial scale for the removal of the toxic pollutants
from industrial effluents.