Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Purification

Dear Colleagues,

Many emerging environmental pollutants, such as antibiotics, organic dyes, pesticides, heavy metal ions, etc., are discharged into water bodies every day. This has led to a growing water environment crisis. Water scarcity has posed challenges to human society. A variety of emerging water purification and treatment technologies, such as membrane filtration, adsorption, chemical oxidation, catalytic degradation, biotechnology, etc., have been developed to efficiently remove these pollutants. As an efficient and green chemical oxidation technology, advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) basing on the production of non-selective hydroxyl radicals have the benefits of being highly efficient, environmentally-friendly, and cost-efficient, and they take place in mild conditions, involve rapid reactions, and are simple to conduct. Therefore, this technology has attracted attentions of many researchers and been applied in the treatment of various wastewaters. AOPs include Fenton oxidation, ozone oxidation, electrochemical oxidation, photocatalysis, photolysis, etc. This Topic on “Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Purification” focuses on the latest novel development of AOPs for wastewater treatment. This Topic publishes new research papers, reviews, case reports, conference papers, etc.

Dr. Ying Zhang
Dr. Fangke Yu
Topic Editors