Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) is one of the most economical and environmental-friendly advanced oxidation process. It makes a promising technology for the treatment of refractory organic pollutants in industrial wastewaters. Various heterogeneous catalysts including noble metals and metal oxides have been extensively studied to enhance the efficiency of CWAO. The present review is concerne...

Wet air oxidation (WAO) and catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) were investigated as suitable precursors for the biological treatment of industrial wastewater containing sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (DBS). Two hours WAO semi-batch experiments were conducted at 15 bar of oxygen partial pressure (P(O2)) and at 180, 200 and 220 degrees C. It was found that the highest temperature provides apprec...

The catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of cationic red GTL over the Fe2O3-CeO2-Bi2O3/γ-Al2O3 catalyst was investigated under mild operating conditions in a batch reactor. The catalyst was prepared by wet impregnation, and characterized by N2 adsorptiondesorption (BET measurement), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The effect of the reaction conditions (catalyst...

The concern about the fate of pharmaceutical products has raised owing to the increasing contamination of rivers, lakes and groundwater. The aim of this paper is to evaluate two different processes for paracetamol removal. The catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of paracetamol on activated carbon was investigated both as a water treatment technique using an autoclave reactor and as a regenerativ...

This study examines the feasibility of coupling a Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation (CWAO), with activated carbon (AC) as catalyst, and an aerobic biological treatment to treat a high-strength o-cresol wastewater. Two goals are pursued: (a) To determine the effect of the main AC/CWAO intermediates on the activated sludge of a municipal WasteWater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and (b) To demonstrate the feas...

Wastewater treatment and re-use of industrial process water are critical issue for the development of human activities and environment conservation. Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) is an attractive and useful technique for treatment of effluents where the concentrations of organic pollutants are too low, for the incineration and other pollution control techniques to be economically feasible ...

a general overview on the prospective of various oxidation and combined processes in the treatment of tannery industry effluent are reported. various oxidation and combined processes such as uv/h2o2/hypochlorites, fenton and electro-oxidation, photo-chemical, photo-catalytic, electro-catalytic oxidation, wet air oxidation, ozonation, biological followed by ozone/uv/ h2o2, coagulation or ele...

We report a novel hybrid material Na2Mo4O13/α-MoO3 as highly efficient catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) catalyst, which showed the highest ever activity at room temperature and atmosphere pressure for the degradation of cationic red GTL. SEM and TEM analyses indicated that this hybrid catalyst has bamboo-shaped nanofiber morphology. In view of practical applications, the influence of some key...

The catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of phenol has been studied in trickled bed reactor using 2 wt.% platinum supported on carbon nanofibers (Pt/CNF) as catalyst. The catalyst was prepared by incipient wetness impregnation, and characterized by N2 adsorption, XRD and TEM. The operational variables studied and their range were: total air pressure, temperature, catalyst load, air and liquid flo...

Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of phenol over activated carbon catalysts in presence of a typical promoter such as hydrogen peroxide has been studied. The experiments were carried out in a trickle-bed reactor at given operating conditions (Cinlet phenol= 1 g/L, Cinlet H2O2= 5g/L, T=127 oC, PT=8 atm and WCAT=2.5 g) in a wide range of space time values (W/QL=20-320 gCAT·h/L). The effect of th...