%0 Journal Article %T Tratamiento de contaminantes org¨¢nicos por foto fenton con luz artificial %A Silva A. %A Sandra Milena %A Trujillo S. %A Juli¨¢n %A Aguilar M. %A Luis Guillermo %A Hincapi¨¦ P. %A Margarita %J Revista Ingenier¨ªas Universidad de Medell¨ªn %D 2009 %I Universidad de Medell¨ªn %X the main purpose of this work was to minimize the polluting effect of organic soluble liquid wastes and moderately soluble, generated at the university of medell¨ªn laboratories (medell¨ªn, antioquia, colombia), through sensitized photo degradation (photo fenton), using artificial light as the source of radiation. fe concentration was changed from 5 to 50 mg/l and for h2o2, from 200 to 500 mg/l, finding an optimum value for total organic carbon (toc) removal of 27.5 mg/l fe and 300 mg/l h2o2, which corresponds to 80% of mineralization reached in 150 min of irradiation. %K waste water %K photofenton %K artificial light %K organic matter %K water treatment. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1692-33242009000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en