Electrochemical processes and novel electrodes for water decontamination

摘要

Environmental pollution control has become one of the global ever-increasing important tasks, especially for those biorefractory and toxic pollutants abatement. In recent years, the applications of environmental electrochemistry for pollutants abatement, especially the electrochemical conversion /destruction of organic pollutants have attracted considerable attention due to the advantages such as environmental compatibility, versatility, and high efficiency. Great efforts have been made to sound electrode materials exploration, efficient processes and novel reactors development, as well as typical organic pollutants degradation mechanism investigation. At present, electrochemical technologies have reached such a status that they are not only comparable with other technologies in terms of cost, but sometimes more efficient and compact. This work summarized our recent works in this area to enhance treatment efficiency in view of engineering application, including anode and cathode material development, degradation mechanism as well as reactor development, which would enrich electrochemical technologies and their applications for environmental remediation.