Advanced Oxidation Processes in Wastewater Treatment: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of civilization and industrialization, the deterioration of water quality has been giving rise to a severe global crisis. In view of the inevitable limitation of traditional biological processes for the removal of refractory contaminants, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), originally defined as the techniques involving the generation of hydroxyl radicals (•OH), are considered as promising strategies in wastewater treatment. In recent years, the definition of AOPs has been extended to them being the processes that involve the participation of radicals, including reactive oxygen species (e.g., •OH, O2•−, and SO4•−), reactive chlorine species (e.g., Cl•, ClO•, and Cl2•−), reactive nitrogen species (e.g., NO•, NH2•, and NO2•), etc. In wastewater treatment, AOPs are commonly used as the tertiary treatment section to produce radicals with high reactivities, capable of degrading micropollutants and harmful organic matters.
This Special Issue on “Advanced Oxidation Process for Wastewater Treatment: Latest Advances and Prospects” will cover new concepts, novel processes, and new application areas based on AOPs, aiming to improve efficiencies and capacities of AOPs for wastewater treatment.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fenton or Fenton-like processes;
- Ozone-based processes;
- UV-based processes;
- Persulfate-based processes;
- Ultrasound-based processes;
- Chlor(am)ine-based processes;
- Homogenous and heterogenous catalysis-driven processes;
- Electrochemical catalysis-driven processes;
- Photocatalysis-driven processes.
Dr. Xin Cheng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advanced oxidation processes
- reactive oxygen species
- reactive chlorine species
- reactive nitrogen species
- emerging contaminants
- wastewater treatment
- catalysis
- photocatalysis
