Treatment of high explosive production wastewater containing RDX by combined electrocatalytic reaction and anoxic-oxic biodegradation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1256-1262

  Chen, Yong ^a   Hong, Lei ^a   Han, Weiqing ^a   Wang, Lianjun ^a   Sun, Xiuyun ^a   Li, Jiansheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anoxic oxic process; Combined process; Degradation mechanism; Electrocatalytic reaction; RDX

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC-OXIC PROCESS; COMBINED PROCESS; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; ELECTROCATALYTIC REACTIONS; RDX;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DEGRADATION; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

EID: 79953746225     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.02.032     Document Type: Article

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