Re: [APD] Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 25, Issue 72

[Jerry Baker <jerry at bakerweb_biz>]

Terry Barber wrote:
> If you really want to reduce organics in water using H2O2 apply uv light to
> form .OH radicals and then you will see some serious reduction take place.
> Topic of my ms thesis was using uv/h202 in water for bacteria/organics
> (think wastewater treatment).
> 
> Not sure if it would zap a biofilm - the free radicals may not hang around
> long enough to do much.

I have read some interesting papers on wastewater treatment using this 
method (and Fenton's reaction too, but I didn't want to ruin the iron in 
my water column). I just didn't/don't have a UV sterilizer handy, and no 
way to measure hydroxyls if I did. I did have a bottle of peroxide in 
the medicine cabinet though ;)

-- 
Jerry Baker
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