Recent Trends in Removal Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Electrochemical Oxidation and Combined Systems

摘要: Due to various potential toxicological threats living organisms even at low concentrations, pharmaceuticals and personal care products in natural water are seen as an emerging environmental issue. The efficiency of removal by conventional wastewater treatment plants calls for more efficient technology. Research on advanced oxidation processes has recently become a hot topic it been shown that these technologies can effectively oxidize most organic contaminants inorganic carbon through mineralization. Among the processes, electrochemical and, general, or anodic have good prospects lab-scale elimination contamination caused presence residual aqueous systems. This paper reviewed effectiveness removing from liquid solutions, alone combination with other last 10 years. Reactor designs configurations, electrode materials, operational factors (initial concentration, supporting electrolytes, current density, temperature, pH, stirring rate, spacing, fluid velocity) were also investigated.