The Statistical Optimization of Indirect Electrochemical Oxidation Process for the

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in finding innovative solutions for the effective removal of contaminants. The presence of dyes, pesticides, detergents, drugs, oil and, soap in the effluent causing water contamination [1]. Moreover textile industries consume extensive volume of water is discharges [2]. The mechanical and wet processes in textile industry uses water, solvent and liquefied ammonia. Whereas the dyes and supporting electrolytes are the main ingredients in textile industries and the discharges of such industrial wastewater contain dyes and electrolytes. It was reported that the primary water consumption about (80–100 m3/ton of finished textile) and waste water discharge contain (115–175 kg of COD/ton of finished textile [3]. Whereas the textile effluent bearing different compositions in term of color and chemicals [4,5]. The main components of textile effluent come from dyeing and culminating processes and the composition of discharge has different nature they contain high suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand, heat, colour, acidity, and other soluble substances [6]. So the high level demand of textile products has caused a major problem of pollution. The textile discharge due to color prevents the so it is harmful for aquatic bio ecosystem [7]. Azo dyes are the major pollutants in textile wastewater (Figure 1).


Figure 1: Graphical abstract.
About 50% among annually world engendered dyes (700,000t) are azo dyes. About 15% of the total world engenderment of dyes is disoriented during textile dyeing which is relinquished in effluent [8]. They are non biodegradable due to high stability and azo linkage. The stability of the dye molecule is due to presence of number of aromatic rings around the azo linkage [9]. Moreover the chemical structure of an azo dye molecule effect its application like dye fixation to fabrics. They have low fixation to fabrics so they are disoriented in textile discharges [10]. Subsequently in recent years, it was emphasize to treat effluent before release. Various techniques including adsorption, biological oxidation, and coagulation process are widely utilized to treat the effluent. Furthermore, the above mentioned methods discharge considerable quantity of sludge, which itself requires treatment. Additionally the different composition of textile effluent failed the practical applicability of these methods [11][12][13]. Consequently the electrochemical processes depend on electrical parameters including voltage International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources and current. Therefore by applying these processes the pollutants could be abstracted efficaciously. Chlorine has been efficaciously employed for the treatment of industrial discharge [14,15]. The librated chlorine is directly utilized as generated by the indirect oxidation process (IOP). It was reported the 1 mol of chlorine molecule generates 1 mol of nascent oxygen as shown in equation below: (1) Moreover it has been successfully utilized to treat the effluent to remove color, odors, cyanide, phenols, detergents etc. and also advantageous to destroy germs [16,17] . The electrochemical oxidation processes are operated under atmospheric conditions so they can be utilized to treat industrial effluents [18,19]. At industrial scale they were applied to treat waste water, including Kraft mill, textile, tannery and dye waste [20][21][22][23]. Furthermore the direct and indirect oxidation process is effectively employed to degrade the pollutants. Moreover in direct oxidation process pollutants are adsorbed at the electrode surface which resulted the oxidation of molecule due to redox reaction. The indirect oxidation process, HOCl/Cl 2 and H 2 O 2 are electrochemically engender [24,25]. They are highly reactive and cause degradation of pollutants [26,27]. Moreover the process relies on the EC generates oxidizing species such as hydroxyl radical (OH•: 2.80eV), chlorine (Cl 2 : 1.36eV), hypochlorite (OCl-: 1.72eV), ozone (O 3 : 2.07eV), and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 : 1.76 eV), which can then be used to decompose dye molecule in the solution.
The indirect oxidation processes mainly produce electro generated oxidized species (EOS) from H 2 O and discharged at the electrodes [28]. It is more efficient and extensively utilized process for the decontamination of waste. Moreover it was also describe that the indirect oxidation process can be summarized by two approaches including electrochemical conversion and combustion. The mechanism of indirect electrochemical oxidation has been suggested that, H 2 O is electrolyzed by anodic catalysis to engender physically physisorbed hydroxyl radicals as represented in equation 2.
The hydroxyl radicals or the chemisorbed active oxygen will react with the organic matters (R) represented as : Meanwhile, in the presence of chloride ion, another vigorous oxidant of hypochlorous acid are engendered on the anode during electrolysis and will react with organic matters as represented in equation (6) and (7) [29,30].
Various industrial wastes contain substantially giant amounts of chloride ions, by indirect electrochemical oxidation method with active chlorine act as a very felicitous technique to treat such type of effluent. The indirect electro-oxidation process is represented by reactions equation (8)(9)(10) [31][32][33].
The present study examines the indirect electrochemical oxidation of Reactive red120 using graphite electrodes. The optimization of efficacious parameters in dye abstraction efficiency such as initial dye concentration, electrolyte concentration, initial pH and reaction time were chosen as response. The Response surface methodology (RSM) is essentially a particular set of mathematical and statistical approach for designing experiments and evaluating the effects of variables, and also finds out optimum conditions of variables to achieve maximum responses [34][35][36]. Moreover this technique is also helpful for the optimization of variables and utilizes them for the removal of dye by EC process [37][38][39][40][41][42]. In order to establish the interaction effect of variables, full-factorial central composite design (CCD) was acclimated to optimize the variables for the EC process. The present study focuses the optimize operational parameters for color and COD abstraction from waste discharge.

Sample
The Reactive red120 was removed from simulated effluent. The structure of it is shown in (Figure 2). Moreover the chemicals used during the IOP (indirect oxidation process) were of analytical grade including NaCl, NaOH and H2SO4. The absorbance measurements were carried out by UV-Vis Spectrometer T80 UV/VIS. As a power supply, by digital DC power supply (Yaxun 1502DD; 15V, 2A) is used to perform EC experiments. The pH, conductance, TDS were measured by (Portable pH/EC/TDS/Temperature HANNA, H19811-5).A 78HW-1 serial constant-temperature magnetic pug mill stirrer is used to perform agitation of the solution during indirect oxidation process. Graphite electrodes were used to perform IOP process. The distance between anode and cathode was maintained at 3 cm. Whereas FTIR model NICOLET 67000 was used to study the structural functional groups of RR120 dyes. For pH adjustment were maintained by NaOH and H 2 SO 4 (10%) solutions ( Figure 2).

Indirect Oxidation Process(IOP) Setup
The (IOP) process was preceded in a glass EC reactor consists of graphite electrodes which are immersed in RR120 dye solution. The conductance, pH and TDS were measured by a pH meter (Portable pH/EC/TDS/Temperature HANNA, H19811-5). The electrodes are connected to a DC power supply. The modest commotion was provided by a magnetic stirrer. After each experimental run, sample was kept for few minutes and measured absorbance and COD values. The distance between electrodes was kept constant. Throughout the experiment, samples were ejected at specified time intervals and they were analyzed. All the runs were performed at constant temperature . After each specific run electrodes were washed with dil H 2 SO 4 and IOP reactor with dil HCl. The experimental setup of indirect electrochemical oxidation process is shown in (Figure 3).

Analytical method
COD measurements were carried out according to the Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater [43]. The absorbance was measured by using Shimadzu Model UV-160 double beam spectrophotometer. The pH, conductance and TDS were measured with (Portable pH/EC/TDS/ Temperature HANNA, H19811-5). The pH and conductivity were adjusted by NaOH or HCl, and NaCl (Merck), respectively.

Calibration Curves
The concentration of RR120 in a sample was determined by standard calibration curve method using concentrations (50mg/L -300 mg/L).

Determination of removal efficiencies
The removal efficiencies of dyes were calculated as:

Central composite design (CCD) for the removal of RR120
The Indirect oxidation process (IOP) depends on different operational parameters. These parameters were successfully optimized by a statistical tool known as RSM based on CCD. By this approach combine and interactive effect of factors were evaluated. The optimization of parameters was designs for the determination of % color and COD removal. Moreover the operation variables including [dye], [NaCl], initial pH, , reaction time were selected. A CCD model with four factors and five levels was designed to optimize the parameters for the color and COD removal. About thirty one (31) experimental runs were proceeded. The second-order polynomial model as represented in equation (13) was applied to assess the correlations between the responses and also the freelance of variables [44].
Where Y is the predicted function; b 0 is an intercept; bi, bii, and bij are the linear coefficient, the quadratic coefficient, and the interaction coefficient, respectively. The X i and X j represent the coded independent factors (Table 1).

Effect of initial dye concentration
The influence of the initial dye concentration on decolorization potency was studied at the dye concentrations (100-300 mg/L). The negligible changes were observed when dye concentration was changed from 100 to 200 mg/L at [NaCl] = 1.5 g/L, pH=7 and reaction time= 20 min. (Figures 4a-4c) show the variation in % color removal potency due to changes in dye concentration with respect to other operational parameters.

Effect of NaCl concentration
In indirect oxidation process chlorine/hypochlorite were produced that causes degradation of dye molecule. In the present study, the NaCl concentration was varied from 1 to 2.0 g/L at a constant potential of 15 V. (Figure 13a-13e) show rapid decoloration due to faster breakdown of azo linkages and the intermediates are formed and oxidized into CO 2 and H 2 O at a much lower rate [46]. It was observed that the rate of color removal is faster compeer to COD due to the fast degradation of azo linkages [47].
The % color removal potency was increased from 40% to 90 % when amount of electrolyte was varied from 1 to 2 g/L at [dye]=200 mg/L, pH= 7 and reaction time =20 min. The oxidizing agent form during electrolysis of aqueous NaCl solution are hypochlorite (hypochlorous acid), chlorate (chloric acid) and oxygen [48]. Among them, hypochlorous acid was assumed to be the main oxidizer in the dye effluent because of its high oxidation potential compared to the other oxidizer forms.
Anodic hypochlorous acid generation: Cathode: The discrepancy in experiment observation suggested that another reaction is taking place in addition to the anodic oxidation and the direct oxidation by molecular oxygen. Moreover the conversion of inactive molecular oxygen to active oxygen is one known cathodic reaction. The electrochemical reduction of molecular oxygen has been studied for hydrogen peroxide production [21][22][23] and in situ generation of H2O2 [49,50] explain that our experimental results are similar to electro reduction of externally added oxygen to active oxygen occurs in place of the cathodic evolution of hydrogen gas.
Moreover the cathodic electro generation of active oxygen occurs reacts with dye molecules. The oxidation of organic compound by hypochlorous acid is represented as: Oxidation reaction of organic compound by active oxygen such as hydrogen peroxide: Anodic hypochlorous acid generation: Cathodic hydrogen peroxide evolution: Figure 4b-4f show the influence of initial pH on electrochemical removal of RR120. The % color removal potency was observed in the order of pHs at 3(93%) > pH 7(80%) > pH11 (67%). The optimum p H range for RR120 removal with graphite anode and cathode is neutral to slightly acidic, which may be due to existing active chlorine in the solution. Moreover hypochlorous acid or hypochlorite is the major oxidant produced in the presence of chloride. The dissociation constant of HClO/ClO-(pKa) is 7.54 at 25°C [51]. Consequently at alkaline PH hypochlorite (E0 = 0.89 V vs. SHE) dominantly exist compeer to hypochlorous acid, whose oxidative ability is comparatively weaker [52]. Therefore, the indirect oxidation ability in alkaline range becomes lower than others. Additionally, the RR120 is an anionic dye and it loss positive counter ions in alkaline medium [53]. They have competing effects with the chloride ions for the adsorption sites on the anode surface and thereby affected the production of active chlorine to some extent [54].

Effect of reaction time
The reaction time is the significant factor. The % color removal potency was increased from 51% to 84% when the reaction time was varied from10 to 20 min at [dye]=200 mg/L, pH= 7 and [NaCl]=1.5 g/L. At optimum values [dye] =100mg/L, [NaCl]=2g/L , pH=7,reaction time=25 min,91% color removal potency was observed. The (Figures 4c-4f) shows the effect of reaction time on % color removal potency.

Color removal efficacy
The color removal was observed due to cleavage of azo linkages so the color abstraction rate is higher compared to % COD removal. Moreover during the reaction the intermediates were engendered from dye degradation that show resistant to chlorine and hypochlorus acid attack and it resulted decrease in the % COD abstraction rate [55]. The study of operational parameters on IOP process show that they all have a consequential effect on the process. The % COD removal potency shows similar pattern at all combination of factors levels.

Effect of dye concentration on % COD removal potency
It was cleared from the observation that when concentration of RR120 was changed from 100 to 200 mg/L the % COD removal potency was observed similar at NaCl 1.5 g/L, pH 7 and retention time 20 min. As shown in (Figures 5a-5c). Moreover the present findings show that dye concentration is not affected by the variation of concentration. Moreover % COD removal potency was significantly affected ( Figure 5).

Effect of NaCl concentration on % COD removal potency
The effect of supported electrolyte concentration on COD removal is shown in (Figures 5a,5d,5e). The presence of NaCl promotes the removal of COD. It was clear that the removal efficiency of COD increases with the increase in electrolyte concentration. The concentration of electrolyte also affected by the conductivity and it was observed that conductivity was increased by the addition of sodium chloride. Moreover chloride ions significantly reduces the adverse effects of other anions, such as HCO 3 − and SO 4 2 − , that could form an insulating layer on the surface of the electrodes and increases the resistance of the electrochemical cell. The increase in the removal efficiency of COD can be attributed by change in the ionic strength due to increase in conductivity of aqueous medium [56].

Effect of pH on % COD removal potency
The pH is known to affect the structural stability of dye molecules (in particular, the degradation. Moreover the influence of pH confirms the importance of electro generated active chlorine for the color removal and, indirectly, on the COD abatement. The mineralization process appeared to be almost pH insensitive since it was mainly dependent on the oxidizing action of the hydroxyl radical produced on the electrode surface. Furthermore it can be concluded that, at acidic pH, achieve the highest color and COD removals. The (Figures 5b,5d,5f ) shows that at lower initial pH values, relatively high color and COD removal were obtained which is in agreement with the corresponding theory.
The results showed that the COD removals are increased with increasing pH up to 5. It indicates that acidic condition is more favorable for the treatment of dye effluent. In acidic conditions, hypochlorous acid was the major compound in the solution. Therefore higher rate of decolorization and degradation in acidic condition may be due to higher oxidation potential of hypochlorous acid. Above pH 5, the rate of reaction was lowest. This result can be attributed to undesirable side reactions such as oxidation of free chlorine to chlorate and per chlorate, reactions involving loss of hypochlorite.

Reaction time on %COD removal potency
Reaction time is an important parameter for controlling the reaction rate in electrochemical treatment process. The linear effect of electrolysis time on COD removal efficiency was studied during electrochemical treatment process by varying the electrolysis time from 10 to 30 min, and the results are shown in (Figures 5c,5e,5f). From the observation, it is found that the percentage of COD removal was increased with increasing of electrolysis time up to 30min [48]. In view of reducing the power consumption and optimizing the electrochemical oxidation process, the effects of electrolysis duration on COD removal were studied by varying the duration from 10 to 30 min. The color and COD removal efficiency depends directly on the concentration of oxidants produced by the electrodes which in turn depends upon time. Moreover when the reaction time increases, the increase in the concentration of active chlorine was occurred. Consequently, an increase in the reaction time in turn increases the color and COD removal efficiency. The decolorization and degradation of the dye are mainly due to the formation of oxidants such as chlorine, ozone, and/or free radicals. The rapid decolorization indicated that initially dyes are fully degraded, giving colorless organic or inorganic products, which can further be treated for complete mineralization. Among the dye molecule, the nitrogen atoms of azo and heterocyclic aromatic ring amines are easy to oxidize. As revealed by various researchers on the electrooxidation of azo dyes, the chromophore azo group is easily broken to generation N 2 gas as represented in Equation (29): However, the complete decolorization of the dye does not show complete COD removal. The decrease of COD shows that further degradation of the initial colorless products occurred along with the decolorization during the electrochemical treatment. It could be concluded that the rate of COD removal is lower than that of color removal, indicating that the azo bond degradation is the first step of the electrochemical degradation mechanism with the comparison of COD removal.

CCD model validation and residuals analysis
The experimental and the predicted responses and their correlation are quantitatively evaluated by coefficient (R 2 ). The obtained R 2 values suggested the good agreement to the observed results since this indicated about 76.91% variation in % color removal was explained by the respective model. The goodness of the fitted model was measured by the Adjusted R 2 (Adj-R 2 ) value ( Table 2). Furthermore the normality of the residuals is studied by Normal probability plots. The observed residuals were plotted against the expected values, as given by a normal distribution in (Figures 6 & 7). The residuals from the analysis should be normally distributed. In practice, if number of observation were large then moderate divergence from normality do not critically influences the results. Moreover the normal probability plot of the residuals follow a straight line to fitted the linear model. Trends observed in (Figures 6 & 7) reveal reasonably wellbehaved residuals for % color and COD removal. Based on these plots, the residuals appear to be randomly scattered about zero. The (Figures 6d & 7d) illustrate the residuals in the order of

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the corresponding observations. It shows that the residuals in the plot fluctuate in an arbitrary pattern around the center line ( Figures 6 & 7).

Pareto charts analysis
It helps to identify the significant factors that influence the target response. The linear, quadratic and interactive significance of factors on response are identified. The amount of electrolyte, reaction time and dye concentration is the significant factors that influences on the % color removal potency. The reaction time has a greater effect on responses compared to the other factors. This is due to the fact that reaction time provides more oxidizing agent interaction and enhances the % color removal efficacy as shown in (Figures 8a,8b).

Analysis of Variance
ANOVA test is performed to study the influence of all factors on target response .Statistical significance of the model equation and model terms were evaluated by F-test and ANOVA [57]. Sum of squares (SS), DOF ( degree of freedom), mean of square (MS), and associated F-test of importance (F) can be calculated as : where SST is the total SS: Where yi is the observation of i Moreover MS is calculated by dividing the sum of squares by the degrees of freedom. DOFA is estimated by DOF A = k A -1. The F value is calculated by [45,58]:

FA = MS A /MSe ---------------------(26)
While MSe represent the error of variance [58]. The values of analysis of variance (ANOVA) are represented in (Table 3). Moreover the F-value was observed to be greater than the tabulated values of F-distribution the model. Moreover it is a good predictor of the experimental results, for a certain number of degrees of freedom at a level of significance α. The p -value < 0.05 for RR120 so it confirming the adequacy of  (Table 4). The P-values describe consequentiality of each of the coefficients, which in turn, are compulsory describe the pattern of the mutual interactions between the variables studied. The more immensely colossal the magnitude of t-value and minuter P-value, the more paramount is the corresponding coefficient [59].

Regression Equations
Based on second order polynomial model, an empirical relationship between the response and independent variables was attained and expressed by the following second-order polynomial equations:

Kinetic study
In the indirect electrochemical oxidation process, the color or COD removal rate is proportional to the concentration of the dye compound and to the chlorine/hypochlorite concentration because the indirect oxidation is mediated by chlorine/ hypochlorite. Therefore, the kinetics for color or COD removal is estimated as: -d The electrochemical oxidation involves the application of an electrical current to the dye wastewater containing chloride to convert into chlorine/hypochlorite. The chlorine/hypochlorite oxidizes the dye compound in the bulk solution and then get reduced to chloride ion. The process is then repeated in a catalytic fashion. Therefore, the concentration of chlorine/ hypochlorite during the electrolysis is assumed to be a constant, and so Equation (30)  The slope of the plot of log (C t /C o ) versus time gives the value of rate constant k (reciprocal min). The rate constant value obtained for the RR120 reactive dye is presented in (Table 5). It was reported that the organic pollutant abatement can be treated following pseudo-first order kinetics [60]. In particular,

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in our previous studies it was verified that the electrochemical dye degradation follows a pseudo-first order reaction [61]. The decolouration rate constants (Kd) were calculated from the slope of semi logarithmic absorbance versus exposition time (t), according to the kinetic Equation (33) [62].
The First order and second order kinetics model was utilized which represented as follows (Table 5): The UV-Vis scanning of RR120 The absorbance spectrum for RR120 shows the absorbance peaks at 392 and 273 nm that are belong to the azo chromophore and aromatic rings of dye molecule, respectively. It was observed that in the presence of hypochlorite, azo bond may break through two mechanisms. In both cases there will be amine compounds that can accept proton under weak acidic condition, and adsorbed on negative charged sites (cathode). On the other hand, oxidation of amid group presents in ortho-situation with respect to the azo bond tends to production of carboxylic derivatives that results weak acidic condition. The nitrogen in the azo bond can be directly reduced and through accepting hydrogen, the azo double bond transform to single bond and further to amine. The decrease of absorbance at 273 nm was indicative of the aromatic ring degradation [62,63]. As shown in (Figure 9).

FTIR spectra analysis
The chemical functionalities of material was categorized by transitory and transmitting the infrared (IR) beam. The ( Figure  8) represent FTIR spectrum of RR120 dye. The characteristic peaks appeared near to 3500cm-1 represents the Nitrogen-Hydrogen stretching was present outside the benzene ring. While the peak at 1365 cm -1 showing Carbon-Hydrogen (C-H) distortion in CH 3 group. The peak at 1174 cm -1 is owing to Carbon -Hydrogen (C-H) stretching in benzene ring. The peak at 3000-3100 cm -1 represents stretching variation of C-H in benzene. Moreover1400-1600 cm -1 represents C=C in benzene ring. The low intensity absorption was observed from 4000 cm -1 to 2000 cm -1 as shown in (Figure 10).

Optimization of parameters
The optimization of operational parameters focuses the increase in the response of color removal potency of dye. To solve this type of multi-objective optimization drawback, Derringer and Suich [64] recommended the desirability perform Equation (34) that is one in all the foremost appropriate ways. The overall desirability function, D, is the mean value of the individual desirability functions: While d i denoting the individual desirability function for every response, and k the number of responses. The purpose of this function is to maximize the responses due to factors levels within the selected ranges [65]. Experimental tests were performed to verify the predicted values of responses at optimum values. The algorithm of multi-objective optimization Minitab software was used to obtain the prognosticated optimal values. Three attestation runs were performed to check the

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experimentally the optimal point. The optimal presaged values were in good accordance with the experimental ones. Based on these results, a central composite design was developed to optimize the IOP process. This process involves three major steps: performing the statistically designed experiments, estimating of coefficients in the proposed model and predicting the response of process and checking the validity of the model.
The optimum values of the process variables for the maximum decolorization efficiency and % COD removal potency are shown in (Table 6). After verifying the experimental test with the presaged values, the results denoted that the maximal decolorization efficiency and % COD abstraction potency were obtained when the values of each parameter were set as the optimum values, which was in good accordance with the value prognosticated from the model. It implicatively insinuates that the strategy used to optimize the decolorization conditions and % COD abstraction potency and to obtain the maximal for the oxidation of RR120 is prosperous. The values obtained from authentic experiments, demonstrated the validation of the optimized conditions [66]. The result obtained for % color removal and % COD removal are depicted in the following (Table  6).  Observation of main interaction plots clearly showing that operational parameters are not linear to experimental mean line. Its mean factors are significantly affecting the responses (Color and COD removal potency). Interactions plots are very helpful to identify the variation in responses due to change of factors levels. The analysis of the interactions between the experimental factors studied is shown in (Figures 11a,11b). The interaction between different factors is conspicuous for the both color and COD removal potency ( Figure 11).

Full interaction plots
The full interaction plots are helpful to study the mutual interaction effect of factors at a time on response.
These plots show responses for the levels of one factor on the x-axis and a separate line indicating the level of another factor. Moreover the parallel lines representing that no variation in target response occurs due to amendment in factors levels. If response slope is higher means additional robust interaction is present among levels of factors for the target response. These plots are reciprocal to ANOVA test. Interaction plots are very useful if there is a significant interaction among the factors for the response value. The lines are not fully parallel for % color removal and % COD removal potency as shown (Figures  12a,12b). It means the response is significantly effecting from mutual interaction of factors levels ( Figure 12).  Figure 13: The scatter plots for % color removal potency. The Scatter plots are exemplified in (Figures 13 & 14). It represent the correlation between RR120 dye removal ,% COD removal and the four variables .It is cleared from the plots that % color removal is decreases with increasing dye concentration and pH. While it is increased when amount of electrolyte and reaction time are enhanced. The % COD removal is increases with increase in pH, amount of electrolyte and reaction time and dye concentration has a negative effect (Figures 13 & 14).

Electrical yield (current efficiency)
The current efficiency is defined as the ratio between the electrical charge that actually used to oxidize the organic compounds and the total consumed electrical charge [67]. At a given time of electrolysis t, the average current efficiency (ACE) can be calculated as [68]: %ACE= [(COD) O -(COD) t ]×FV/8It (35) ( Table 7). Where COD 0 and COD t are the chemical oxygen demand at initial time and the given time t (g O 2 /L), respectively, U is the voltage applied, I the current (A), t the treatment time (hr) and V is the volume of solution (L).

Conclusion
In this study, abstraction of RR120 utilizing indirect electrochemical oxidation method was performed prosperously. Comparing the rates of dye abstractions under different conditions the influences of the dye concentration, reaction time, pH of the solution were more paramount and pronounced. The results of UV-Vis spectrophotometer showed that at the terminus of treatment, aromatic compounds were abstracted from wastewater. The electrochemical treatment of simulated wastewater containing the investigated dye has been investigated in NaCl conductive electrolyte and under several operating conditions utilizing of graphite electrode. Both of the color and COD abstraction are incremented with increase in treatment time and amount of electrolyte. With the avail of hydroxyl radical and other radicals, the intermediates perpetuated to be degraded to carbon dioxide and water, which led to the mineralization of the dye solution. This result implicates that the optimization utilizing RSM predicated on the CCD can preserve the time and effort for a maximum abstraction of dye in wastewater.