Study of the Alternative Renewable Energy Resources for Industrialization of Advanced Oxidation Wastewater Treatment Processes: Feasibility Cost Estimation

Abstract

Technical feasibility and economical feasibility are needed for wastewater treatment technologies to be suitable for use in the industry. In this regards, the application of an electrical power source to produce active radicals is one of the most important restrictions of application of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) method for wastewater treatment, but there are hardly any exhaustive reports which address the issue of economical feasibility of these techniques on industrial scale. In this study, we estimated the expenses of dye removal from wastewaters using two established AOPs technologies (photocatalytic and non-photocatalytic). The impact of using alternative renewable energy sources on the cost was examined and compared in different regions of the world. This approach acts in favor of helping them to employ different economical energy sources for improving the performance of application of AOPs which would be more effective for helping to decrease the expenses of wastewater treatment in future.