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    Removal of Arsenic in Groundwater From Western Anatolia, Turkey Using an Electrocoagulation Reactor With Different Types of Iron Anodes
    (Elsevier, 2022) Kobya, Mehmet; Dolaz, Mustafa; Özaydın Şenol, Burcu; Gören, Ayşegül Yağmur
    Electrocoagulation (EC) is a significantly efficient method for As removal from waters and received considerable attention recently. In this study, the natural groundwater (GW) samples containing As concentrations of GW-1: 538.8 μg L−1, GW-2: 1132.1 μg L−1, and GW-3: 52, 000 μg L−1 were obtained from different provinces and treated by EC process using different iron anodes (plate, ball, and scrap). To achieve drinking water As standard (10 μg L−1), the operational time, applied current, and As removal optimization for all anode types were studied. At applied current of 0.025 A, the As removal efficiency, EC time, and operating cost were >99.9%, 180 min and 0.406 $ m−3 for ball anodes, >99.9%, 100 min and 0.0813 $ m−3 for plate anodes, >99.9%, 80 min and 0.0815 $ m−3 for scrap anodes for GW-3, respectively. It was observed that as the As concentration in the GW increased, the EC time and operating cost increased. Overall, it was concluded that Fe scrap anodes are more advantageous than other types of anodes in terms of operating cost in EC reactor for As removal.
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    Arsenite Removal From Groundwater by Aerated Electrocoagulation Reactor With Al Ball Electrodes: Human Health Risk Assessment
    (Elsevier, 2020) Gören, Ayşegül Yağmur; Kobya, Mehmet; Öncel, Mehmet Salim
    The application of conventional electrocoagulation (EC) process for removal of As(III) from groundwater suffers from the need of external oxidation agent for oxidation of As(III) to As(V). To tackle this limitation, an aerated EC reactor for the removal of As(III) from groundwater was evaluated in this study. The effect of initial pH(i), air flow rate, applied current, and electrode height in the EC reactor was examined. The experimental results showed that removal of arsenic mostly dependent on the applied current, electrode height in EC reactor, and air flow rate. The As(III) removal efficiency (99.2%) was maximum at pH(i) of 7.5, air flow rate of 6 L min(-1), applied current of 0.30 A, and electrode height in EC reactor of 5 cm, with an total operating cost of 0.583 $ m(-3). Furthermore, the carcinogenic risk (CR) and non-carcinogenic risk of arsenic (As) was in the range of tolerable limits at all operating conditions except applied current of 0.075 A at the end of the aerated EC process to remove As from groundwater. The present EC reactor process is able to remove As(III) from groundwater to below 10 mu g L-1, which is maximum contaminant level of arsenic in drinking water according to the World Health Organization (WHO). (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Arsenite and Arsenate Removals From Groundwater by Electrocoagulation Using Iron Ball Anodes: Influence of Operating Parameters
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Şık, E.; Demirbaş, Erhan; Gören, Ayşegül Yağmur; Öncel, Mehmet Salim; Kobya, Mehmet
    Removals of arsenite (As(III)) and arsenate (As(V)) from groundwater by a cylindrical packed-bed electrocoagulation (EC) reactor using Fe ball anodes were investigated in this study. Effects of some operating parameters such as initial pH (pHi of 6.5–8.5), applied current (i of 0.075–0.30 A), initial concentration (Co of 30–200 μg/L), diameter of iron ball (dp of 5.0–10.0 mm), height of anode balls in the reactor (h of 2–8 cm) and airflow rate (Qair of 0.0–6.0 L/min) on the removal efficiency of arsenic were evaluated. The removal efficiency of arsenic decreased with increase in concentrations of arsenic from 30 to 200 μg/L while its removal efficiency increased with increase in operating time, applied current, height of anode in the reactor, and airflow rate. The optimum operating conditions for effective As(III) and As(V) removals to meet the permissible level of arsenic effluent concentration of <10 μg/L were determined as 0.3 A, 14 min of EC time for As(III) and 12 min for As(V), a pHi of 7.5, Co of 200 μg/L, dp of 7.5 mm, h of 7.5 cm and Qair of 6 L/min, respectively. Arsenic removal efficiency, energy and electrode consumptions, operating cost, charge loading and arsenic removed capacity per amount of electrochemically generated Fe at the optimum conditions were also calculated as 96.0%, 1.442 kWh/m3, 0.0752 kg/m3, 0.612 $/m3, 252 C and 2.55 μg/mg Fe (0.762 μg/C) for As(III) removal and 95.8%, 1.386 kWh/m3, 0.0628 kg/m3, 0.546 $/m3, 216 C and 3.05 μg/mg Fe (0.887 μg/C) for As(V) removal, respectively.