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Advanced Oxidation Processes for Removal of Emerging Contaminants in Water

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Huijiao Wang, Yujue Wang, Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Summary

This editorial introduces a special issue on advanced oxidation processes for removing emerging contaminants from water, featuring 16 papers covering catalyst design, reactor engineering, and treatment performance across electrochemical, photocatalytic, and Fenton-based approaches.

Study Type Environmental

This Special Issue includes manuscripts on mechanistic understanding, development, and implementation of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern in water and wastewater treatment. The main goal was successfully achieved under the joint effort of authors, anonymous reviewers, and editorial managers. Totally, one review and 15 research papers are included in the Special Issue. These are mainly focused on catalyst synthesis, reactor design, treatment performance, kinetic modeling, reaction mechanisms, and by-product formation during electrochemical, photocatalytic, plasma, persulfate, chlorine, ozone-based, and Fenton-related AOPs at different scales. This Special Issue received attention from researchers from different parts of the world such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, and the USA. The guest editors are happy to see that all papers presented are innovative and meaningful, and hope that this Special Issue can promote mechanistic understanding and engineering applications of AOPs for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern in water.

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