The mediated electrochemical oxidation (MEO) process with Ce(IV) and nitric acid as the oxidizing medium was employed for the destruction of various model organic pollutants in batch and continuous organic feeding modes. A near complete destruction was observed for all the model organic pollutants studied. The effects of organic concentration, temperature, concentration of Ce(IV), concentration of nitric acid and feeding time on the organic destruction efficiency were investigated. Under the experimental conditions of 80 ℃ and 0.95 M Ce(IV) in 3M nitric acid, nearly 90% destruction was achieved based on CO2 production and 95% based on TOC and COD nearly for all the organic compounds studied in batch organic addition. In the case of continuous organic addition with in situ electroregeneration of Ce(IV) by the electrochemical cell a good destruction efficiency was obtained. For long term organic feeding (120 min) the destruction efficiency was found to be 85% based on CO2 evolution and 98-99% based on TOC and COD analyses. A model was proposed for calculating the CO2 formation constant during the continuous process of organic addition. The model predicted a steady state CO2 evolution pattern for the destruction process during continuous organic feeding. The experimental results obtained confirmed the predicted trends for the destruction process. The changes in enthalpy, entropy, activation energy and free energy for EDTA degradation were found to be 26.7 kJ/mol, .230 J/(mol·K), 29.7 kJ/mol, and 118 kJ/mol respectively.

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