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Phenolic compounds removal by wet air oxidation based processes

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Wet air oxidation (WAO) and catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) are efficient processes to degrade organic pollutants in water. In this paper, we especially reviewed the WAO and CWAO processes for phenolic compounds degradation. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the CWAO processes that could be beneficial to the scientists entering this field of research. The influence of different reaction parameters, such as temperature, oxygen pressure, pH, stirring speed are analyzed in detail; Homogenous catalysts and heterogeneous catalysts including carbon materials, transitional metal oxides and noble metals are extensively discussed, among which Cu based catalysts and Ru catalysts were shown to be the most active. Three different kinds of the reactor implemented for the CWAO (autoclave, packed bed and membrane reactors) are illustrated and compared. To enhance the degradation efficiency and reduce the cost of the CWAO process, biological degradation can be combined to develop an integrated technology.

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This work was financially supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 51425405), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 8172043) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (ZDRW-ZS-2016-5-3).

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    Linbi Zhou, Hongbin Cao & Yongbing Xie

  3. Institut de recherches sur la catalyse et l’environnement de Lyon (IRCELYON), CNRS, 2 Avenue Albert Einstein, 69626, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

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Zhou, L., Cao, H., Descorme, C. et al. Phenolic compounds removal by wet air oxidation based processes. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 12, 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-017-0970-2

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