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Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the degradation of phenol in water using advance oxidation process by plasma system. Source of water was collected from Kuranji River in Padang City, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The experiments were carried out to see the effect of flow rate on first order reaction of phenol, removal efficiency and energy efficiency. The results shown that the first order reaction and removal efficiency are decreases with increasing of flow rate. The energy efficiency (Gphenol) decreases from 2.98 to 1.98 ?mol/Joule as flow rate increases from 30 to 100 mL/minute. These results found that the flow rate is important parameter to control the degradation of phenol in plasma system.