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The removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and color from simulated dye wastewater containing organic dyes, direct yellow 4, C 26 H 20 N 4 O 8 S 2 Na 2 and acid yellow 17, C 16 H 10 O 7 N 4 S 2 Cl 2 Na 2 experimentally investigated using an electrochemical undivided cell reactor with Pt as anode and steel as cathode. Particular attention was paid to probe the effect of supporting electrolyte (NH 4 Cl), cell voltage, pH, and treatment time on the electrochemical treatment efficiency. Experiments were also carried out using 0.2 M NH 4 Cl as supporting electrolyte under the condition of free pH. The experimental results showed that the process could efficiently remove the color and COD from simulated dye waste water. The overall COD removal reached at 69.9% by using supporting electrolyte and increasing voltage. The process can be described by pseudo first-order kinetics for the removal of COD.

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In the present study, GOx/MnFe2O4/calcium alginate nano-composite was prepared by the trapping enzyme/nanoparticles in calcium alginate. The prepared absorbent was applied for decolorization of artificial dye wastewater of acid red 14 (AR14) by heterogeneous bio-Fenton system. Kinetic and isotherm studies were carried out. The decolorization of acid red 14 followed the Michaelis- Menten, pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order kinetic models. Good correlation coefficients were obtained by fitting the experimental data to Michaelis- Menten and pseudo-second order kinetic models. The adsorption isotherms were described by Langmuir, Freundlich and Temkin isotherms. Among the three isotherm models, the Freundlich model was fitted with the equilibrium data obtained from adsorption of AR14 onto MnFe2O4/calcium alginate; while Temkin isotherm gave the best correlation for adsorption on MnFe2O4 nanoparticles. The effect of various parameters such as initial pH of solution, initial dye concentration, and contact time on the adsorption of AR14 on MnFe2O4 and MnFe2O4/ /calcium alginate as well as dye enzymatic decomposition was studied. The decolorization of AR14 with initial concentration of 10 mg.L?1 by using GOx/ /MnFe2O4/calcium alginate was 60.17%.