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- Title
Technological and Economic Optimization of Wheat Straw Black Liquor Decolorization by Activated Carbon.
- Authors
Suditu, Gabriel Dan; Drăgoi, Elena Niculina; Puițel, Adrian Cătălin; Nechita, Mircea Teodor
- Abstract
Wheat straws are a globally abundant agro-waste that may play a critical role in the global transition from single-use plastics to green materials as an inexpensive and renewable raw material. Vast amounts of wastewater are produced during the technological process of wheat straw-cellulose/hemicellulose conversion. In this context, this work focuses on wastewater decolorization via activated carbon adsorption. A set of carefully planned experiments enabled the identification of a model that described the relationship between the system's outputs and parameters. While process optimization is frequently connected with identifying process parameters that improve efficiency, this work employed a multi-objective optimization approach from both a technological and economic aspect. Nondominated sorting genetic algorithm versions II and III—NSGA-II and NSGA-III algorithms—were applied. As objectives, maximum efficiency and minimum cost per experiment were followed in different scenarios using pseudoweights and trade-off metrics. When optimizing only the efficiency, the results indicated a 95.54% decolorization yield, costing 0.1228 Euro/experiment, and when considering both the efficiency and cost, different solutions were obtained. The lowest cost was 0.0619, with a 74.42% decolorization. These findings indicate that incorporating an economic perspective into the optimization procedure can improve cost estimation and facilitate managerial decision-making.
- Subjects
SULFATE waste liquor; WHEAT straw; ACTIVATED carbon; SINGLE-use plastics; BIODEGRADABLE plastics; COLOR removal in water purification
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2023, Vol 15, Issue 16, p2911
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w15162911