TY - JOUR ID - 38675 TI - Effective degradation and mineralization of real textile effluent by sonolysis, photocatalysis, and sonophotocatalysis using ZnO nano catalyst JO - Nanochemistry Research JA - NCR LA - en SN - 2538-4279 AU - Sonwane, Gunvant AU - Mahajan, Vilas AD - Departmen of Chemistry, Kisan, Arts, Commerce and Science college Parola, Dist-Jalgaon, India. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 258 EP - 263 KW - Industrial effluents, sonophotocatalysis, Total organic carbon KW - Zinc oxide DO - 10.7508/ncr.2016.02.013 N2 - In this study, the ultrasonic, photocatalytic and sonophotocatalytic degradation of organics in textile industrial effluent was studied using ZnO nano catalyst, ZnO nano catalyst was synthesized by using sol-gel method. The structure and morphology of the catalyst were investigated using scanning election microscopy (SEM), electron dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD). The percentage removal of textile influents was determined by using TOC.  The effects of various operational parameters such as, contact time, catalyst loading, and solution pH on the degradation efficiency were studied. The increase in degradation efficiency with the increase in catalyst loading, contact time. Neutral pH is suitable for degradation of textile industrial effluents, and comparative study shows that the sonophotocatalyst is effective for degradation technique than ultrasonic and photocatalytic degradation of textile industrial effluent. UR - http://www.nanochemres.org/article_38675.html L1 - http://www.nanochemres.org/article_38675_e7bb8a0eee478b4aa9a960a043b305a4.pdf ER -