Ozonation in batch experiments were conducted at elevated temperatures to study the influence of temperature on the efficiency of ozonation. The effect of temperature on ozonation was determined by measuring the extent of colour removal and the reduction of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total organic carbon (TOC) of a textile waste effluent. It was found that increasing the temperature causes a decrease in the levels of colour, COD and TOC. Complete mineralisation of the dye molecule, however, did not occur to an appreciable extent. The efficiency of colour removal was 71.3%, whilst the COD and TOC reduction efficiency was 20.3 and 19.3%, respectively, at the highest temperature studied (50 °C). The removal efficiency of COD, however, did not improve significantly when the temperature was increased from 40 to 50 °C.
A low-energy plasma focus device was used as an electron beam source. A technique was developed to simultaneously measure the electron beam intensity and energy. The system was operated in Argon filling at an optimum pressure of 1.7 mbar. A Faraday cup was used together with an array of filtered PIN diodes. The beam-target X-rays were registered through X-ray spectrometry. Copper and lead line radiations were registered upon usage as targets. The maximum electron beam charge and density were estimated to be 0.31 μC and 13.5 × 1016/m3, respectively. The average energy of the electron beam was 500 keV. The high flux of the electron beam can be potentially applicable in material sciences.
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A Plasma Focus device (2.2 kJ, 12 kV) is studied as a pulsed X-ray source, operated with Argon at a filling pressure in the range of 0.7 to 2.5 mbar. The time resolved X-ray signals are measured with an array of PIN diode detectors. The X-ray emission produced by the plasma focus discharge at various pressures is investigated and compared. It is found that at the high pressure regime of more than 1.5 mbar, very consistent and high output of X-ray radiation is obtained, at the peak of the discharge current. A remarkable increase of about five times of the average X-ray yield is achieved at optimum pressure 1.7 mbar compared to that obtained at other pressures. An indirect method to determine the electron temperature of the plasma is achieved by using the array of 5 channel PIN diode detector coupled with Al foil of different thicknesses. The result shows that the electron temperature of the plasma is 7 keV, when the operating pressure is at 1.7 mbar. The maximum total X-ray yield is about 2.53 mJ per shot at optimum pressure, equivalent to the efficiency of 0.00012%.
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