Photocatalysis and Advanced Oxidation Processes in Water
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 992
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water oxidation; (photo)electrochemistry; electroactive MOFs; membrane technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past decades, water pollultion has become a global problem due to rapid industrialization. Among various source of pollutions, persistent organic compounds (POCs), such as bisphenol A, nitrobenzene, chlorophenols, etc., are getting more attention since they have been detected in natural and domestic water sources. The fact is many of these POCs were designed to be biological active and used as example antibiotics. Therefore, those POCs in general retain acute or chronic toxicity even at very low concentrations. What is more concerning is their genotoxicity as they may confer resistance in pathogens and disrupt endocrine in humans and wildlife, leading to multi-generational effects. As a result, it is urgent to find effective ways to remove POCs from water sources. Conventional water remediation technologies such as membrane filtration, ion exchange, biological methods, etc., are restricted from large-scale applications due to their low efficiency and high cost. Instead, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) and photocatalysis are believed to be the most promising technologies as they can generate highly reactive oxidizing free radicals and high-energy photoinduced charge carriers, which have the capability to mineralize POCs. In particular, as a solar-driven AOP technology, photocatalysis is more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
In this Special Issue, we wish to cover the most recent advances in AOPs, photocatalysis, and photocatalytic AOPs, such as Fenton or Fenton-like reactions and ozonation and sulfate radical-based reactions, etc., by hosting a mix of original research articles and short critical reviews.
Dr. Jingguo Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- persistent organic compounds
- advanced oxidation processes
- AOP
- photocatalysis
- water treatment
