Oxydation en voie humide des effluents des distilleries d'alcool à partir de canne à sucre en présence de catalyseurs Ru et Pt supportés sur TiO2 ou ZrO2

摘要

Vinasse is an aqueous effluent originating from ethanol production process from sugarcane. It is a dark brown effluent with an extremely high COD and a low BOD. The treatment of this type of effluent by wet air oxidation (WAO) was the subject of this study using noble metal catalysts supported on TiO2 and ZrO2 at 190-210 ° C under 50-70 bar air. The addition of Ru catalysts allowed the complete mineralization of the organic model pollutants (sucrose, polyethylene glycol, melanoidin) or the real effluents (cognac vinasse and cane vinasse); the Pt catalysts were also very effective, but acetic acid was formed as an intermediate which was difficult to be converted. Under these conditions, the organic nitrogen was converted to ammonium. Whereas in the absence of catalyst, the ammonium ions were stable, the addition of a catalyst was capable of converting ammonium to dinitrogen and nitrate. The selectivity to N2 and NO3 - depended on the oxidizing reaction conditions (molar ratio nitrogen/metal). In general, platinum proved to be more selective to dinitrogen. Metal leaching was detected upon CWAO of effluents containing organic nitrogen. The leaching decreased and disappeared as nitrogen was mineralised and the dissolved metal redeposited on the solid catalyst. The continuous reactor tests confirmed the observations in the batch reactor