Degradation of organic pollutants from water by biochar-assisted advanced oxidation processes: Mechanisms and applications

T Jiang, B Wang, B Gao, N Cheng, Q Feng… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar has shown large potential in environmental remediation because of its low cost,
large specific surface area, porosity, and high conductivity. Biochar-assisted advanced …

Persistent free radicals on biochar for its catalytic capability: A review

X Liu, Z Chen, S Lu, X Shi, F Qu, D Cheng, W Wei… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Biochar is an economical carbon material for water pollution control, which shows great
promise to be applied in the up-scale wastewater remediation processes. Previous studies …

Efficient activation of peracetic acid by mixed sludge derived biochar: Critical role of persistent free radicals

L Wu, Z Li, P Cheng, Y She, W Wang, Y Tian, J Ma… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Peracetic acid (PAA)-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) were increasingly
identified as the alternative scheme in wastewater treatment. Cost-effective and easily …

Fabrication of Fe3O4 and graphitized porous biochar composites for activating peroxymonosulfate to degrade p-hydroxybenzoic acid: Insights on the mechanism

H Fu, P Zhao, S Xu, G Cheng, Z Li, Y Li, K Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
The novel Fe 3 O 4 and porous biochar originated from Myriophyllum aquaticum composites
(Fe 3 O 4/MC) with graphitized structure, hierarchical porous and strong magnetism were …

Persistent free radicals in carbon-based materials on transformation of refractory organic contaminants (ROCs) in water: a critical review

Y Qin, G Li, Y Gao, L Zhang, YS Ok, T An - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
With the increased concentrations and kinds of refractory organic contaminants (ROCs) in
aquatic environments, many previous reviews systematically summarized the applications of …

Application of magnetic carbon nanocomposite from agro-waste for the removal of pollutants from water and wastewater

J Barasarathi, PS Abdullah, EC Uche - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Water pollution has significant impact on water usage, and various contaminants, such as
organic and inorganic compounds, heavy metals, dyes, pharmaceuticals compounds …

Efficient degradation of diclofenac sodium by periodate activation using Fe/Cu bimetallic modified sewage sludge biochar/UV system

L He, L Lv, SC Pillai, H Wang, J Xue, Y Ma, Y Liu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Iron/copper bimetallic nanoparticles based sludge biochar (Fe/Cu-SBC) was prepared by
using a modified co-precipitation route. The Fe/Cu-SBC system prepared was subsequently …

Photogeneration of reactive oxygen species from biochar suspension for diethyl phthalate degradation

G Fang, C Liu, Y Wang, DD Dionysiou… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, the photogeneration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from biochar
suspension was investigated. The characterizations of biochar particles before and after …

Activity and reactivity of pyrogenic carbonaceous matter toward organic compounds

JJ Pignatello, WA Mitch, W Xu - Environmental Science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Pyrogenic carbonaceous matter (PCM) includes environmental black carbon (fossil fuel
soot, biomass char), engineered carbons (biochar, activated carbon), and related materials …

pH-dependent generation of radical and nonradical species for sulfamethoxazole degradation in different carbon/persulfate systems

J Liang, K Chen, X Duan, L Zhao, H Qiu, X Xu, X Cao - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The impacts of pH on purification efficiency can be phenomenal in advanced oxidation
processes (AOPs), because solution pH affects persulfate (PS) activation processes …