Introduction
Organic pollutants in water, especially aromatic chemicals, are common pollutants in the wastewater from many industrial sectors, such as synthetic chemical plants, petroleum refineries, and paper, textile, and pesticide factories. Aromatic compounds are refractory and often toxic to biological treatment processes. Electrochemical oxidation is another alternative which has attracted considerable research attention. Electrochemical oxidation has the potential to be developed as a cost-effective technology for the treatment of toxic organic pollutants due to its unique advantages, such as simplicity, robustness in structure, and ease in operation [1–4].
Although organic pollutants in water usually can be oxidized at numerous anode materials, the electrochemical performance depends on the kinds and structure of anode materials [5]. The oxidation of organic pollutants at traditional anodes, such as Pt and graphite, was found to be slow. Since the discovery of dimensionally...
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Feng, Y. (2014). Organic Pollutants in Water Using SnO2, Direct 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_94
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