Showing papers in "Chemical Engineering Journal in 2018"

TL;DR: Sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have received increasing attention in recent years due to their high capability and adaptability for the degradation of emerging contaminants as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive literature review of TiO2 modification techniques that include approaches for overcoming the inherentTiO2 limitations and improving the photocatalytic degradation of VOCs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss processes based on cavitation combined with advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including, among others, the Fenton process, ozonation, hydrogen peroxide, UV irradiation, catalysts and persulfates.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel iodine vacancy-rich BiOI/Ag@AgI/VI-BOI Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalyst was successfully constructed.

TL;DR: The degradation performance of atrazine by peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activated by CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (NPs) in heterogeneous catalytic process was studied in this article.

TL;DR: This review provides a critical evaluation of various published techniques for the activation of persulphate, suggests novel explanations for important observations in the field and advances proposals to explain reaction mechanisms more consistently.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review summarizes comprehensive recent studies on the removal of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) by forward osmosis (FO), reverse Osmosis(RO), nanofiltration (NF), and ultrafiltration (UF) membrane treatments, and describes important information on the applications of FO, RO, NF, and UF membranes in water and wastewater (WW) treatment.

TL;DR: Despite the fact that this polymer is more than 150 years old, PLA remains a fertile platform for biomedical innovation and fundamental understanding of how artificial polymers can safely coexist with biological systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a 3D hierarchical Co3O4-rGO hybrid-architecture by a facile, green and highly tunable strategy is presented. And the result is attributed to utilizing multi-interface magnetic micro-flowers to tune impedance matching, which is accompanied with strong relaxation loss and electrical loss, as well as magnetic loss.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review on the recent practical and theoretical development in graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-based materials as carbocatalysts for the activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) and peroxydisulfate(PDS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the outstanding removal percentage and environmental restoration of BN-based nanomaterials for the elimination of various pollutants from the last ten years, which can not only preferably remove contaminants, but also can be directly regenerated by burning in air.

TL;DR: In this article, small magnetic clusters are uniformly implanted on nitrogen doped graphene, which realizes synergy of dielectric and magnetic loss with good conductivity and improved impedance matching, and tailoring small Fe 3 O 4 clusters successfully tunes microwave absorption and bandwidth.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel and effective alkali-acid combined method was proposed for its modification and applied to tetracycline adsorption, where the associative facilitation between the alkali and acid modifications was explored, and the influences of pyrolysis temperatures on MS-biochar properties were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, an eco-friendly water-borne epoxy (EP) with enhanced corrosion protection performance by embedding graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets with hydrophilic dopamine (DA).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided a facile method to development of band width electromagnetic absorber via loading magnetic quantum dots on the mono-dispersed amorphous carbon sphere.

TL;DR: In this article, a green synthesized TiO2 NPs was applied for the first time to testify its potential for the simultaneous removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and chromium (Cr) from secondary treated tannery wastewater (TWW).

TL;DR: In this paper, a ligand was anchored with mesoporous silica, named as nano-composite materials, which was applied in the detection and adsorption of cadmium (Cd(II)) ions from wastewater samples.

TL;DR: A review of the most commonly occurring PFCs in the natural environment is presented in this article, which includes photolytic and photocatalytic methods, electrochemical processes as well as sonolytic and radiolytic methods with the use of ionizing radiation, wet chemnical oxidation methods, ozonation and Fenton processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of novel Eu3+-activated NaBiF4 nanoparticles were synthesized by an ultra-fast chemical precipitate method at room temperature.

TL;DR: In this article, a flexible supercapacitor electrode composed of hierarchical FeCo2O4@NiCo-LDH core/shell heterostructures on carbon cloth is reported by a facile and cost-effective method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Co-doped UiO-66 nanoparticle was synthesized by a one-step solvothermal method, and the adsorbed tetracycline (TC) molecules could be removed more than 94% of initial concentration under simulative sunlight irradiation.

TL;DR: Mesoporous CeO2 catalysts were synthesized by pyrolysis of Ce-MOF precursor (Ce-(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid) (H2O)6) and their catalytic performance were evaluated by toluene combustion as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel Co3O4-Bi2O3 catalyst was synthesized using a microwave-assistant method, and the corresponding characteristics were studied through XRD, SEM, and N2 adsorption.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (NCNTFs) with distinguishable nitrogen content and graphitization degree have been successfully prepared through in situ transformation of ZIF-67 under N2/H2 atmosphere at different pyrolysis temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid aerogels/peroxymonosulfate (PMS) system was used to remove p-nitrophenol (PNP) degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, the magnetic quaternary BiOCl/g-C3N4/Cu2O/Fe3O4 (BGC-F) nano-heterojunction with excellent photocatalytic activity was prepared by facile co-precipitation method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the degradation of antibiotic norfloxacin (NOR) by CoFe 2 O 4 -GO coupled with peroxymonosulfate (PMS) was comprehensively investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the mechanism of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation by nano-CuFe2O4 and its implications for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, a ternary Ag/Ag 2 CO 3 /BiVO 4 plasmonic heterojunction photocatalyst was successfully fabricated by a precipitation method over BiVO 4, followed by light reduction.

TL;DR: In this paper, bimetal-organic frameworks (Co/Fe bi-MOFs) were used as a template for the catalytic degradation of bisphenol A (BPA).