RESUMO
Kinetics on degradation efficiency of medroxyprogesterone (MPA) by ozonation was investigated in this paper. And the operating parameters such as MPA initial concentration, ozone dosage, pH and radicals scavenger (HCO3-) were further discussed. Results showed that MPA could be degraded effectively by ozonation, with a first-order kinetics in continuous ozone aeration system and a second-order kinetics in semibatch ozone aeration system, when the initial concentrations of MPA were 3, 5, 10 mg x L(-1). The increases of pH and the addition of HCO3- would bring negative effects to the degradation of MPA. The degradation efficiency of MPA decreased from 89.8% to 54.8% with pH increase from 3.10 to 9.02, and the rate constant k decreased from 0.1463 L x (mg x min)(-1) to 0.049 5 L x (mg x min)(-1) and the degradation efficiency decreased 22.2 percentage points with the addition of HCO3-, in semibatch aeration system.
