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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 24, Issue 25, Pages 20187-20208Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9836-1
Keywords
Ionizing radiation; Advanced oxidation reduction process; Wastewater treatment; Organic pollutants; Radiolytic decomposition; Gamma rays; Electron beam
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- Polish National Center of Science (NCN), project OPUS 8 [2014/15/B/ST4/04601]
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The increasing role of chemistry in industrial production and its direct and indirect impacts in everyday life create the need for continuous search and efficiency improvement of new methods for decomposition/removal of different classes of waterborne anthropogenic pollutants. This review paper addresses a highly promising class of water treatment solutions, aimed at tackling the pressing problem of emerging contaminants in natural and drinking waters and wastewater discharges. Radiation processing, a technology originating from radiation chemistry studies, has shown encouraging results in the treatment of (mainly) organic water pollution. Radiation (high energy) processing is an additive-free technology using short-lived reactive species formed by the radiolysis of water, both oxidative and reducing, to carry out decomposition of organic pollutants. The paper illustrates the basic principles of radiolytic treatment of organic pollutants in water and wastewaters and specifically of one of its most practical implementations (electron beam processing). Application examples, highlighting the technology's strong points and operational conditions are described, and a discussion on the possible future of this technology follows.
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