Electrochemical Treatment of Aqueous Wastes Agricole

Mediterranean fruit industry represent an important income resources for south Mediterranean country economy. The increasing demand is associated with severe requirement in terms of quality. This condition generates an increasing use of pesticides in the field and at post harvest level. The presence of such substances in the environment could harm the health of consumers and animal and reduce the quality of soil or water. This book elaborate an electrochemical process of obsolete stocks pesticide degradation. Our work demonstrated that the pesticide can be electrochemically removed from aqueous solutions using SnO2, and BDD anodes. They found that current density influence is remarkably clear on the BDD electrodes where it was evident that the most efficient current density toward a complete pesticide mineralization was reached with the application of 60 mA.cm-2.

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Professor of Chemistry at the National School of Applied Sciences Agadir (Morocco). He was born in 1968 and was graduated in Chemistry, where he obtained the Ph D degree in Chemical Sciences in 1999 His work has been cited 544 times with h-index of 13 (SCOPUS) and cited 778 times with h-index of 15 based on Google Scholar citation report for 2013.

Product details

• Authors: Hammouti Belkheir, Erram Mohamed, Errami Mohamed, Salgh Rachid, Salghi Rachid
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9783659380372
• ISBN: 978-3-659-38037-2
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 215 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Physical chemistry