@article{ijebb2013123,
author={{Alena, Assefa and Sahu, Omprakash},
title={Treatment of Municipal Waste Water by Photocatalytic Method},
journal={International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation & Biodegradation},
volume={1},
number={2},
pages={49--53},
year={2013},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijebb/1/2/3},
abstract={In this study, the semiconductor photocatalytic disinfection of secondary treated municipal wastewater was investigated. Natural water from a spring in Ethiopia prefecture, which is used for the water supplies for the city of Ethiopia, Crete, and samples from the effluents of the secondary settling tank of the municipal wastewater treatment plant of Ethiopia were collected. The samples were exposed to UV-A irradiation in the presence of TiO<SUB>2</SUB>.  The parameters examined in this study were the length of TiO<SUB>2</SUB> / UV-A treatment for effective disinfection, the microorganism type (total coliforms, enterococci), the relative bactericidal activity of three different types of TiO<SUB>2</SUB>, the amount of the catalyst needed, and the pH of the samples.  The results presented here show that commercial TiO<SUB>2</SUB> powder Degussa P25 is the most effective catalyst of the three used. <i>Enterococci</i> showed a stronger resistance to photocatalytic disinfection, whereas small pH changes do not seem to have a significant effect on it.},
doi={10.12691/ijebb-1-2-3}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}