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ClearEditorial: Emerging trends in advanced oxidation processes for water treatment
This editorial reviewed emerging trends in advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for treating water contaminated with pharmaceuticals, microplastics, pesticides, and other emerging contaminants. The review highlighted recent advances in photocatalysis, ozonation, and combined AOP systems for effective water treatment.
Emerging Contaminants: An Overview of Recent Trends for Their Treatment and Management Using Light-Driven Processes
This review characterized contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water bodies and evaluated light-driven treatment processes including photo/Fenton, photocatalysis, photolysis, and UV/Ozone, proposing a two-pronged management framework that incorporates both detection and degradation strategies.
Recent advances and challenges in advanced oxidation processes for degradation of nano- and microplastics in water: a critical review
This critical review evaluates four main advanced oxidation processes — ozonation, photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrochemical oxidation — for breaking down nano- and microplastics in water, summarizing what has been achieved and where major technical gaps remain. Developing effective degradation technologies is urgently needed because conventional water treatment systems do not reliably remove small plastic particles.
Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview
This review covered electrochemical oxidation technologies for water and wastewater treatment, discussing their effectiveness against emerging pollutants, dyes, and chemicals while highlighting operational parameters that influence treatment efficiency.
Developments in advanced oxidation processes for removal of microplastics from aqueous matrices
This review evaluates advanced oxidation processes for removing microplastics from water, finding that photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrochemical methods can effectively degrade microplastics into smaller molecules, offering promising alternatives to conventional non-destructive treatment approaches.
Treatment of Water and Wastewater: Challenges and Solutions
This editorial introduces a special issue focused on challenges and solutions in water and wastewater treatment, covering topics from emerging contaminants to innovative treatment technologies. The collection highlights how pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals present ongoing challenges for conventional treatment systems. The study emphasizes the need for advanced treatment approaches and integrated management strategies to protect water quality and public health.
Critical assessment of advanced oxidation processes and bio-electrochemical integrated systems for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater
This review assesses advanced oxidation processes and bioelectrochemical systems for removing emerging contaminants such as personal care products, antibiotics, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals from wastewater. The study evaluates integrated treatment approaches for addressing these difficult-to-remove pollutants.
Advanced electrocatalytic redox processes for environmental remediation of halogenated organic water pollutants
Researchers reviewed advanced electrochemical methods for breaking down halogenated organic pollutants in water, which are persistent contaminants found in many industrial and consumer products. The study examined how electrocatalytic processes can target the strong carbon-halogen bonds that make these chemicals so resistant to natural degradation. The findings suggest that these emerging treatment technologies hold promise for cleaning up contaminated water sources more effectively than conventional methods.
Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview
This review covers electrochemical oxidation, an advanced water treatment method that uses electricity to break down stubborn pollutants in wastewater. The technique can remove pharmaceuticals, dyes, and other persistent chemicals that standard treatment misses. While not specifically about microplastics, this type of advanced treatment technology is relevant to addressing the growing problem of emerging contaminants in drinking water.
Application of Advanced Integrated Technologies (Membrane and Photo-Oxidation Processes) for the Removal of CECs contained in Urban Wastewater.
Researchers reviewed and evaluated the integration of membrane filtration and photo-oxidation technologies for removing contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) from urban wastewater, arguing that combining these methods yields synergistic effects not achievable by individual treatments. The study highlights the importance of advanced integrated treatment systems to enable wastewater reuse and address the global freshwater scarcity challenge.
From Fenton and ORR 2e−-Type Catalysts to Bifunctional Electrodes for Environmental Remediation Using the Electro-Fenton Process
This review covers the development of bifunctional electrocatalysts that combine Fenton reaction activity with selective 2-electron oxygen reduction to produce H2O2 in situ for the electro-Fenton process, enabling energy-efficient degradation of emerging contaminants in water without external peroxide addition.
Advanced oxidation processes for the elimination of microplastics from aqueous systems: Assessment of efficiency, perspectives and limitations
This review evaluates advanced oxidation processes as a strategy for breaking down microplastics in water systems, comparing techniques such as photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and ozonation. Researchers found that while these methods show promise for degrading microplastics into smaller, less harmful molecules, challenges remain in scaling them for practical use. The study identifies key limitations and suggests directions for making these technologies more efficient and applicable to real-world water treatment.
Green Chemistry Approaches for Mitigating Water Pollution: Innovations and Challenges
This review examines green chemistry approaches to water pollution remediation, evaluating innovations including photocatalysis, bio-based coagulants, and advanced oxidation processes as more sustainable alternatives to conventional water treatment methods that generate secondary pollutants.
The efficacious of AOP-based processes in concert with electrocoagulation in abatement of CECs from water/wastewater
Researchers reviewed how combining electrocoagulation — an electrical water-cleaning method — with advanced oxidation processes like ozone, UV light, and Fenton reactions can dramatically improve the removal of hard-to-treat contaminants from water and wastewater. While these hybrid systems show strong results in the lab, the review notes that data for real-world industrial-scale applications, particularly for microplastics and pesticides, remains limited.
Advanced Oxidation Catalysts
This volume examines advanced oxidation catalysts (AOCs) as an innovative approach to wastewater treatment, covering their design, synthesis, catalytic mechanisms, and application against persistent pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and microplastics that resist conventional treatment methods.
The Application of Electrochemical Methods in Water Treatment
This review examines electrochemical methods for water treatment, covering electrocoagulation, electrooxidation, and electrodeposition processes and their applications for removing heavy metals, organic pollutants, and emerging contaminants including microplastics from water.
A Short Review on Recent Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Microplastics Degradation
This review summarizes recent advances in advanced oxidation technologies (AOTs) for degrading microplastics, evaluating methods such as UV/ozone, Fenton reactions, and photocatalysis. The authors assess the efficiency, scalability, and limitations of each approach for treating microplastic-contaminated water.
Advanced Oxidation Techniques and Hybrid Approaches for Microplastic Degradation: A Comprehensive Review
This review examines advanced oxidation processes for degrading microplastics, including photocatalysis, electrochemical oxidation, Fenton reactions, and plasma technologies, which generate reactive species capable of breaking down polymer chains. Hybrid systems combining these oxidation methods with biological treatments or membrane filtration showed particular promise for scalable microplastic remediation. The authors identify challenges around energy consumption, secondary pollutant formation, and the need for optimization before these technologies can be integrated into existing wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Urban and Industrial Wastewater Disinfection and Decontamination by Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs): Current Issues and Future Trends
This review examined advanced oxidation processes for disinfecting and removing contaminants from urban and industrial wastewater before release into the environment. These treatment technologies can also help break down microplastics and associated chemical pollutants in wastewater.
Engineering functional nanocomposites for enhanced AOP-mediated microplastic mineralization: From mechanistic insights to water remediation strategies
This review examines how advanced oxidation processes such as photocatalysis, Fenton reactions, and electrocatalysis can be used to break down microplastics in water. Researchers evaluated the strengths and limitations of each technique and explored how functional nanomaterials can enhance degradation performance. The study highlights promising directions for developing scalable water treatment solutions to address microplastic contamination.
Revolutionizing Wastewater Reuse: A Critical Review of Innovative Treatment Technologies for a Sustainable Energy-Water Nexus
This review critically examines innovative wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable reuse, covering advances in membrane filtration, electrochemical processes, advanced oxidation, and emerging contaminant removal including microplastics, in the context of addressing global water scarcity.
Electrochemical remediation of microplastics: Progress and prospects in water treatment
This review examines electrochemical methods for removing microplastics from water, including electrocoagulation, electro-oxidation, and the electro-Fenton process. Evidence indicates that electro-oxidation can achieve removal rates as high as 99 percent under optimized conditions. The study highlights these techniques as promising alternatives for water treatment but calls for further research to scale them up for real-world applications.
Photo-Fenton treatment of emerging pollutants in municipal wastewater using nanocatalysts: A sustainable approach
This study evaluated photo-Fenton oxidation using nanocatalysts as a sustainable treatment for pharmaceuticals, pesticides, personal care products, and microplastics in municipal wastewater. The nanocatalyst-driven process achieved higher removal efficiencies for emerging pollutants than conventional treatment, offering a promising upgrade for wastewater plants struggling with micropollutant removal.
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for the Degradation of Micro and Nano Plastic
This review assesses advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) — including photocatalysis, ozone treatment, electrocatalysis, and Fenton reactions — as methods to break down micro- and nanoplastics in water. While AOPs can degrade plastic particles, most currently achieve only modest levels of complete mineralization, meaning significant plastic residues often remain. The study highlights the need to optimize and potentially combine these techniques to develop effective water treatment solutions for removing nanoplastics from drinking water and wastewater.