Electrochemical Oxidation of Organic Pollutants
Electrochemistry can offer much for solving or alleviating environmental problems. Over the past 15 years, electrochemical technology has been largely developed for its alternative use in wastewater remediation. The strategies include both the treatment of effluents and waste and the development of new processes or products with less harmful effects, often denoted as process-integrated environmental protection. Electrochemistry offers two options for the treatment of these pollutants with the aim of oxidizing them, not only to CO2 and water (known as electrochemical combustion or mineralization) but also to biodegradable products [1–7]:
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Direct anodic oxidation (or direct electron transfer to the anode), which yields very poor decontamination.
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Chemical reaction with electrogenerated species from water discharge at the anode, such as physically adsorbed “active oxygen” (physisorbed hydroxyl radical (•OH)) or chemisorbed “active...
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Martinez-Huitle, C.A. (2014). Organic Pollutants in Water Using BDD, Direct and Indirect Electrochemical Oxidation. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_92
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