Pyrite-mediated advanced oxidation processes: Applications, mechanisms, and enhancing strategies

B Song, Z Zeng, E Almatrafi, M Shen, W **ong, C Zhou… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Proper treatment of wastewater is one of the key issues to the sustainable development of
human society, and people have been searching for high-efficiency and low-cost methods …

A critical review on the application of pyrite in constructed wetlands: Contaminants removal and mechanism

X Wang, T Shen, W Yang, L Kang, B Li, Y Tian… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pyrite is increasingly employed as a substrate in constructed wetlands (CWs), exhibiting
outstanding denitrification and phosphorus removal efficient, and demonstrating superior …

Oxygen vacancies-dominated reactive species generation from peroxymonosulfate activated by MoO3− x for pollutant degradation

X Wang, X Liu, Y Tong, C Liu, Y Ding, J Gao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interface oxygen vacancies (OVs) are commonly used to improve the catalytic performance
of activators in persulfate-based advanced oxidation processes, but the underlying …

A Highly Stable Metal–Organic Framework-Engineered FeS2/C Nanocatalyst for Heterogeneous Electro-Fenton Treatment: Validation in Wastewater at Mild pH

Z Ye, JA Padilla, E Xuriguera, JL Beltran… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Herein, the novel application of FeS2/C nanocomposite as a highly active, stable, and
recyclable catalyst for heterogeneous electro-Fenton (EF) treatment of organic water …

Sulfur vacancies in pyrite trigger the path to nonradical singlet oxygen and spontaneous sulfamethoxazole degradation: unveiling the hidden potential in sediments

L Zhu, H Wang, J Sun, L Lu, S Li - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceutical residues in sediments are concerning as ubiquitous emerging
contaminants. Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide minerals in the estuarine and coastal …

Kinetic models for hydroxyl radical production and contaminant removal during soil/sediment oxygenation

P Zhang, J Liu, H Yu, D Cheng, H Liu, S Yuan - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydroxyl radical (• OH) oxidation has been identified as a significant pathway for element
cycling and contaminant removal in redox fluctuating environments. Fe (II) has been found to …

Active iron species driven hydroxyl radicals formation in oxygenation of different paddy soils: Implications to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degradation

N Chen, D Huang, G Liu, L Chu, G Fang, C Zhu… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The frequently occurring redox fluctuations in paddy soil are critical to the cycling of redox-
sensitive elements (eg, iron (Fe) and carbon) due to the driving of microbial processes …

The impact of coal mine dust characteristics on pathways to respiratory harm: Investigating the pneumoconiotic potency of coals

C Kamanzi, M Becker, M Jacobs, P Konečný… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Exposure to dust from the mining environment has historically resulted in epidemic levels of
mortality and morbidity from pneumoconiotic diseases such as silicosis, coal workers' …

A novel strategy for enhancing heterogeneous Fenton degradation of dye wastewater using natural pyrite: Kinetics and mechanism

C Wang, R Sun, R Huang, Y Cao - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogen peroxide activation by pyrite for degradation of recalcitrant contaminants receives
increasing attention. The improvement of catalytic efficiency of natural pyrite is still a …

The pH-dependent degradation of sulfadiazine using natural siderite activating PDS: The role of singlet oxygen

F Sun, T Chen, H Liu, X Zou, P Zhai, Z Chu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Occurring naturally siderite (FeCO 3) was used as the heterogeneous catalyst to activate
peroxodisulfate (PDS) for the degradation of sulfadiazine under different initial pH values …