VAEM

I have been tasked to reduce COD (from 50 000 ppm) to below 7000 ppm. My matrix is water (over 90%) and mixture of urea, formaldehyde, hydrocarabon (oil) and phenol.

How do I reduce it? I have tried hydrogen peroxide but I was not succesful

were you succesfull with your project? How cheap is ETOH in Zim?

i am in Zimbabwe, africa and here we have plenty of ethanol at a cheap price but people still use kerosene/paraffin for cooking. i need the ethanol to thicken so i am looking a suitable thickening agent