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Modeling the removal of Endosulfan from aqueous solution by electrocoagulation process using artificial neural network (ANN) Seyed Mohammad Mirsoleimani-azizi, Ali Akbar Amooey, Shahram Ghasemi, and Saeid Salkhordeh-panbechouleh Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b02846 • Publication Date (Web): 23 Sep 2015 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on September 24, 2015
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Modeling the removal of Endosulfan from aqueous solution by
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electrocoagulation process using artificial neural network (ANN)
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Seyed Mohammad Mirsoleimani-azizi1, Ali Akbar Amooey1*, Shahram Ghasemi2, Saeid
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Salkhordeh-panbechouleh1
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Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
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Faculty of Chemistry, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
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Abstract
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Electrocoagulation (EC) is an electrochemical method to treatpolluted wastewaters and aqueous
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solutions. In this research, EC was used to remove Endosulfan from aqueous solution. The
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results show that the best conditions that obtained in this study are: pH=4, current density=6.2
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mA/cm2, initial concentration of Endosulfan =30mg/L and electrolysis time=60 min. The
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solution conductivity seems to has no significant effect on the removal efficiency. Artificial
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neural network (ANN) was utilized to model the experimental data. The model was developed
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by using three layer feed-forward neural network with eight neuron in the hidden layer for
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modeling of EC process. A comparison between the predicted results and experimental data gave
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high correlation coefficient ( = 0.976) and showed that the model is able to predict the
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removal efficiency.
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Key words:
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Artificial neural network; Electrocoagulation; Endosulfan; Removal efficiency *
Corresponding author: Ali Akbar Amooey, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran; Tel: +981135302903
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1. Introduction
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Endosulfan has been used in agriculture around the world to control insect pests. The water
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which is contaminated with Endosulfan can bring about serious environmental problem and also
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threat human health.Endosulfan is one of the most toxic pesticides on the market today, which
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isresponsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world. The excessive
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concentration of this insecticide, causesreproductive and developmental damages in both animals
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and humans, and also can promote proliferation of human breast cancer cell1. So, the amount of
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usage should be controlled lest the toxicant contaminate ground or sea water.
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To find out the suitable treatment for removal of toxicant from water for both environmental and
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economic reasons, several processes like treatment by ion exchange2, advanced oxidation
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process3, photochemical degradation
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developed. Electrochemical technology can be applied for the treatment of wide range of
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wastewaters. One of the electrochemical methods is electrocoagulation (EC) that can compete
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with the conventional chemical coagulation process in the treatment of wastewaters. The EC
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process is characterized by low investment cost, need low space, simple equipment requirement,
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sludge stability, operational simplicity, no need to chemical materials, rapid sedimentation, low
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sludge production and environmental compatibility. EC is an effective and credible method for
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treating different wastewaters including phenol
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wastewaters from chicken industry 11, cheese whey 12, hospital wastewater13, baker’s yeast 14 and
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heavy metal containing solution 15, 16.
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The EC process is based on in situ generation of coagulant through electrodissolution of
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aluminum electrodes. In EC process, the aluminum electrodes produce their hydroxides (Al
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(OH)3) in the contaminated water. In this process, when the aluminum electrodes are used as an
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anode and acathode, the main reactions can be summarized as follows:
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a. Anodic reactions:
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Al → Al3+ +3e- (1)
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2H2O → O2 (gas) + 4H+ (aq) + 4e- (2)
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b. Cathodic reactions:
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2H2O +2e- → H2 (gas) + 2(OH)-(aq) (3)
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Due to the complexity of the reactions which occur in the EC process, it is difficult to determine
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the kinetic parameters, thus it causes uncertainties in the design and scale upof chemical reactors
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for industries. EC process is generally complicated and depends on several parameters, so the
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modeling of this process has many problems which cannot be solved by simple linear
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correlation.
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The artificial neural network (ANN) has ability to recognize and reproduce cause and effect
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relationships through training, for multiple input/output system, which makes it efficient to
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represent and up-scaling even the most complex systems like electrocoagulation
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robust and reliable characteristic in finding the non-linear relationships between variables
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(input/output) in complex systems, numerous application of ANN have been successfully
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conducted to solve environmental engineering problems 18, 19.
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According to literature, modeling of EC process has been little investigated. Hu et al. applied
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Langmuir equation to specify the kinetic of the fluoride removal reactionby EC 20. Emamjomeh
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et al. developed empirical model for fluoride removal by electrocoagulation/flotation (ECF)
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process 21. Recently Valente et al. predict chemical oxygen demand in dairy industry treated by
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EC with ANN 22.
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In this paper, the removal efficiency of Endosulfan in aqueous solution by EC treatment was
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investigated. The effect of several parameters such as initial pH, electrolysis time,initial
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concentration of Endosulfan and current density on the removal efficiency wasstudied. An
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important aim of this study is removal of Endosulfan from aqueous solution by EC and
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presentation of an ANN model that provide reliable and robust prediction of the efficiency of this
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2. Experimental
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2.1. Materials and instruments
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Endosulfan solution was prepared by dissolving Endosulfan (Merck, Germany) in distilled water.
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The chemical structure and other characteristics of Endosulfan are shown in Table 1.Initial pH of
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solutions was adjusted by 0.5 M NaOH (Merck, Germany) and HCl (Merck, Germany) solutions
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and determined by pH meter (Metrohm 826, Switzerland). The initialconductivity of
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solutionwasadjusted by addition of NaCl. Also the conductivity measurementswere carried out
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by conducto meter (JENWAY, 4020, U.K). Four aluminum plates were used as anodes and
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cathodes. Dimensions of electrodes were 100 × 50 × 2 mm and the distance between two
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electrodes in EC cell is 10 mm in all experiments. The outer electrodes were connected to the DC
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power source (Sanjesh, Iran) with galvanostatic operational option to control the current density.
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The experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1.Experiments were conducted with four aluminum
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electrodes connected in bipolar mode to a glass pipe. Before each experiment, the electrodes
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were polished by sandpapers with different mesh and then dipped in 0.5 M HCl solution to
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dissolve any oxide from their surface.Then electrodes were rinsed with distilled water, and
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finally dried at oven at 75℃ for 15 minutes. All runs were performed at 25±3 ℃. In each
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experiment, 400 mL of Endosulfan solution (with specified concentration) was transferred into
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the electrolytic cell. After the current density was adjusted to the desired value, the operation
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wasstarted. The contaminant concentration varies between 10 to 80 mg/L. In this study, the
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voltage of cell was between 10 to 30 V and current density was in the range of 2.5 to 12 mA/cm2.
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The conductivity of solution was between 2.62 to 7.7 mS/cm. During the process, the solution
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was agitated at 200 rpm and the sampling of solution was carried out at each 15 minute to
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determine the residual concentration of Endosulfan. Also the total time of process was 60
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minutes. The concentration of Endosulfan in solution was analyzed using UV–Vis
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spectrophotometer (Braic-2100, China). Absorbance was measured at the wavelength of 250 nm
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and spectral bandwidth of 0.2 nm. The removal efficiency (Re) was calculated using Eq. 4 where
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C0 is the initial concentration of Endosulfan in aqueous solution and C is concentration of it at
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Artificial neural network (ANN) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which can model any
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kind of data sets even in cases where available data are complex. ANN is a mathematical
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modeling technique which applies numerical analysis to provide reliable models23. The
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inspiration of using neural network came from the biology of human brain
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independent variables while the output layer represents the dependent variable. Between the
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input layer and the output layer there are layers called the hidden layers. Number of neurons in
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hidden layers should be optimized. Each layer is composed of some neurons which are
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connected to neurons located in previous and next layers. Information in an ANN is divided
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between multiple cells (nodes) and connection between cells (weights) 18. The number of input
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Data points should be divided into two major sets. First set is used to train and validate the ANN
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and the other data set is used to test the network. Training procedure optimizes network
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parameters (weights and biases). When training of ANN via proper propagation method is
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finished, second set of data which is completely new to ANN is used to test the trained
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network23.
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In an ANN, transfer function is a mathematical representation of the relation between the input
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and output layer. There are several transfer function such as radbas,purelin,hardlim,satlin, poslin
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and etc. One of the most commonly used function is sigmoidal transfer function and is given by
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Where f(x) is the hidden neuron output. This function is used in the next section to normalize the
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3.1. Neural network modeling
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The topology of an ANN is determined by the number of layers, the number of nodes in each
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layer and the nature of the transfer functions. Optimization of ANN is an important step in the
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development of a model
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transfer function with backpropagation algorithm was used. A linear transfer function (purelin)
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was used at the output layer. The training function was “train scaled conjugate gradient
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backpropagation” (trainscg). All calculations were carried out with MATLAB mathematical
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software with ANN toolbox.
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To apply one network for EC process, five neurons such as time of electrolysis, current density,
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pH, solution conductivity and initial concentration of Endosulfan in aqueous solution are
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required for input layer and one neuron for output layer (removal efficiency of Endosulfan). The
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range of studied variables is summarized in Table 2. To optimize neurons number in hidden
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layer, 70% of data points were used to train the ANN and deviations were considered to make
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decision about optimized number of neurons in hidden layer. The results of experiments
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indicated that 5-8-1 network could be applicable for this process. Fig. 2 shows architecture of 5-
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8-1 network.
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70 experiments were conducted to develop ANN model. The samples were allocated to training
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and test set that each of them contains 50 and 20 samples, respectively.
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Since the transfer function used in the hidden layer was sigmoid, all samples were normalized in
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0.1 - 0.9 range. So, all of data (xi) were converted to norm values (xnorm) as follows 17, 18: = 0.8
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between the experimental and predicted values using the ANN for all of data used for training
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and testing. It shows that the points are well distributed around X=Y line in narrow area. A
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correlation coefficient of = 0.976 for the line plotted using experimental and predicted data,
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The results demonstrate that ANN is fast and has the prediction capability. Assume that no
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experimental data is available for a condition in EC, 5-8-1 network can predict the removal
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The dependences of removal efficiency on initial pH values were investigated over initial pH
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range of 2-10. Vik et al. observed that the pH of solution changes during the EC process. They
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reported that pH increment occurs when the initial pH is lower than 7
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increase in pH tohydrogen evolution at cathode. However, Chen et al. explained this by the
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release of CO2 from wastewater. Actually in low pH, CO2 releases during the H2 evolution and
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the final pH doesn’t vary significantly and only a short drop occurs 28. The experimental values
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of Endosulfan removal percent from aqueous solution at different initial pH values as well asthat
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obtained by ANN are shown in Fig. 4. Each experiment replicate (n) five times (n=5) and relative
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standard deviation (RSD) was 2.1%
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As it can be observed in Fig. 4, the optimum efficiency was occurred in pH = 4. By decreasing
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pH of the solution, the probability of dissolving the aluminum hydroxide and the conversion of it
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into other types of aluminum species increases. When pH increases, aluminum hydroxide
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Also, the negatively charged aluminate ions may be formed through the following reaction:
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There is an optimum pH for adequate adsorption of Endosulfan and an increase or a decrease of
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pH can affect on the removal efficiency of adsorbed Endosulfan. In basic media, as a result of
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the formation of aluminum species which their acidic sites are filled with hydroxide ions,
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Endosulfan cannot be adsorbed by the precipitate. In high acidic media, the aluminum hydroxide
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coagulant is solved, so the absorbed Endosulfan releases in the solution.
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Fig. 5 shows a comparison between experimental (n=5, RSD=1.7) and calculated values of
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removal efficiency of Endosulfan as a function of current density.
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In an EC process, current density determines the coagulant production rate and the removal
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efficiency depends on aluminum concentration. The theoretical amounts of Al dissolution (mtheo)
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in the EC cell can be expressed by Faraday’s law as follows 10: "#$% =
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where I is the current density (A), t is the time of electrolysis (s), m is the amount of dissolved
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aluminum (g), M is the atomic weight of the aluminum (g/mol), Z is the metal valance (3 for Al),
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and F is Faraday’s constant (F = 96,487 C/mol). As the results indicate, the removal efficiency
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increases with current density increment. By increasing the current density from 2.5 to 12
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mA/cm2, the removal efficiency rises from 74.6 % to 92.6 %. According to Faraday’s law, the
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amount of anodic dissolution of Al grows by increasing the current density. The higher amounts
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3.4. Effect of electrolysis time
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Electrolysis time is an important parameter which affects on the removal efficiency and controls
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the reaction rate. To explore the effect of operating time, a series of experiments (n=5,
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RSD=2.3%) were carried out on solution containing constant Endosulfan concentration (50
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times. According to Faraday’s law, the amount of aluminum released from anode depends on the
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electrolysis time and current density, so by increasing the time of reaction, more aluminum is
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releases from anode surface and the Endosulfan removal from solution enhances. Fig.6
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illustrated that the removal efficiency increases from 66.6 % after 15 minutes to 84.57 % after 60
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minutes of process. Also, it can be observed in Fig.6 that predicted values from proposed ANN
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model are in good agreement with the experimental data.
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Effect of the initial concentration of Endosulfan was investigated on the removal efficiency of
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EC cell in the range of 10 mg/L to 80 mg/L. The experimental data (n=5, RSD=2.15)and ANN
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predicted values of Endosulfan removal efficiency against initial concentration of it is depicted
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in Fig. 7. As presented in Fig. 7, the removal efficiency of Endosulfan decreases with increasing
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in its initial concentration. For example, after 60 minutes of EC process at pH=7, current density
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(6.6 mA/cm2) and at initial Endosulfan concentration of 10, 30, 50, 70 and 80 mg/L, about
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91.23, 88, 84.57, 65.3 and 51.75% of removal efficiencies were obtained, respectively. This can
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be related to the fact that the amount of Al ions is constant at the same constant current density
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and time for all initial concentration of contaminate (according to Faraday’s law). As aresult, the
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Al ions produced at high initial concentration of Endosulfan are insufficient to reduce all of
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contaminates. Similar results were observed previously in other studies18, 29.
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3.5. Effect of solution conductivity
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To investigate the influence of solution conductivity, different solution of Endosulfan (50 mg/L
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at pH=7) were prepared with conductivity in the range of 2.6 to 7.7 mS/cm. The current density
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of 6.6 mA/cm2 was applied to all solution. Fig. 8 show the relation between the removal
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efficiency and solution conductivity. As it can be seen the solution conductivity has no
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significant effect on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan.Also, it can be dedicated from Fig. 8
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that ANN predicts the removal efficiency correctly.
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4. Conclusions
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The removal
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electrocoagulation using aluminum electrodes. The effects of various operational parameters
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such as initial concentration of contamination, current density, pH, electrolysis time, and solution
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conductivity have been investigated on removal efficiency. It was observed that in initial
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concentration of Endosulfan, current density and electrolysis time have significant effect on the
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removal efficiency. The results revealed that pH = 4 is optimum condition and by increasing the
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pH of solution, the removal efficiency decreases. Also the results illustrated that the performance
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of EC process in removal of Endosulfan can be successfully predicted by applying a multilayer
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feed-forward ANN (using back propagation algorithm) with 8 hidden layers.
efficiency of Endosulfan from aqueous solution was examined by
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Acknowledgments
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We gratefully acknowledge thefinancial support received fromthe University of Mazandaran.
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Fig. 1
The setup of EC experiment: 1: DC power supply; 2: Stirrer; 3: Magnetic bar; 4: Cathode electrode; 5: Anode electrode.
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The ANN optimized structure.
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Comparison of the experimental results with those calculated via neural network modeling
Fig. 4
The effect of pH on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan: current density (6.2 mA/cm2), Endosulfan concentration (50 mg/L), solution conductivity (2.62 mS/cm).
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The effect of current density on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan: pH=7, Endosulfan concentration (50 mg/L), solution conductivity (2.62 mS/cm).
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The effect of electrolysis time on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan: current density (6.2 mA/cm2), Endosulfan concentration (50 mg/L), solution conductivity (2.62 mS/cm), pH=7.
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The effect of initial concentration on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan: current density (6.2 mA/cm2), pH=7, solution conductivity (2.62 mS/cm).
Fig. 8
The effect of solution conductivity on the removal efficiency of Endosulfan: current density (6.2 mA/cm2), Endosulfan concentration (50 mg/L), pH=7
Table 1
Characteristic of Endosulfan
Table 2
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Removal Efficiency (perdicted)
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y = 1.0104x - 0.1055 R² = 0.9768
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Table 1 Structural
Commercial name
Chemical class
Mw(g/mol)
Density(g/cm3)
Solubility in water(mg/L)
Thiodan, Endocide
Organochlorine
406.93
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Table 2 Variable
Range
Input layer Initial PH
2 - 10
Current density
2.51 - 12 mA/cm
Electrolysis time
0 - 60 min
Initial Endosulfan concentration
10 - 80 mg/L
Solution Conductivity
2.62 - 7.71 mS/cm
Output layer Residual concentration
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