2^nd International Conference on
Advances and Innovative Trends in Chemistry

Biography:

Besa Mulaj is a Bachelor student at the Department of Chemistry – University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Republic of Kosovo. She studies the third year of Chemical Engineering degree. By growing up and seeing the hard of the life, she understood the importance of hard work and patience. She applied these values to her endeavors and now she is working on her goals every single day. Also, her upbringing has completely supported her development as a person. She had published her work, and it includes most papers from Environmental Chemistry. Also, she had participated in many scientific conferences in Balkan. She works as a volunteer in Kosovo Volunteers Platform and with some other organizations.

Her research involves and is targeted mostly on the Environmental Chemistry. Her interests are for the treatment and degradation of organic pollutants by using the Fenton process, a new technology that has started to be used a lot in chemistry science. She keeps working on her research area, trying to be productive and also help finding some fast and cheap solutions for destroying air pollutants.

 

Abstract:

The amount of wastewater is increasing considerably every day. Since the amount of usable water is constantly decreasing, wastewater treatment is an immediate need for society. Therefore, many cleaning plants have been built in which methods such as coagulation, adsorption, chemical oxidative reagent treatment, microbiological treatment, etc. are applied. Inorganic and organic compounds and especially their aromatic constituents are the main pollutants in the industrial process that creates wastewater. Common wastewater treatment processes are inefficient to remove these types of toxic and hazardous pollutants, so electro-Fenton is one of the newest and most ecological technologies for wastewater treatment containing organic compounds, especially aromatic compounds. Fenton Reagent is a hydrogen peroxide solution of iron ion as a catalyst used to oxidize pollutants into contaminated waters. These reactive species are the strongest oxidants that can be applied to the water and they can oxidize almost any composition present in the water matrix. Consequently, • OH reacts no selectically as soon as it is formed and then the pollutants will be fragmented quickly and efficiently converted to small inorganic molecules. Even methyl orange as an organic compound is a water pollutant. Its discharge into the environment is very alarmed due to the color, toxicity and carcinogenicity of the compound, so considerable attention has been given to the assessment of the degradation ability of this azo dye. At first, the ratio of hydrogen peroxide and iron ions was found and then we used different concentrations of salts by looking at and comparing their effect on methyl orange degradation. The concentrations we used are: [H₂O₂] = 0.08 mM and [Fe²⁺] = 0.08 mM and the organic compounds we used are: glycine (C₂H₅NO₂), 2-aminothiazole (C₃H₄N₂S), ascorbic acid (C₆H₈O₆), and aspartic acid (C₄H₇NO₄).