NON THERMAL PLASMA TREATMENT FOR OXIDATION OF HALOGENATED ORGANIC MOLECULES

In this paper, the use of the gliding are technique to degrade pollutant molecules of 4,chlorophenol and 2,4,6 trichlorophenol is presented. The technique itself is presented as well as the optimisation of the process, implemented on sodium hydroxide solutions. The optimum parameters were applied to the degradation of chlorophenols. The evolution of concentrations was measured thanks to HPLC. It was shown that, in the case of chlorophenol, a zero order reaction took place while in the case of trichlorophenol the reaction was devided in two steps. First stages of the determination of the reaction products and reaction schemes are presented and discussed.