Fenton oxidation and chromium recovery from tannery wastewater by means of iron-based coated biomass as heterogeneous catalyst in fixed-bed columns
This work deals with the treatment of a tannery wastewater by a mixed-iron coated olive stone bio-sorbent particles. Olive stones were used as the support to zero-valent iron and magnetite nanoparticles to develop a new material for the removal of chromium, organic matter and total phenols from the wastewater. The optimal operating conditions were determined in batch reactors, after which the process was scaled-up using fixed-bed columns in series.