Electrochemical Transformation of Trace Organic Contaminants in the Presence of Halide and Carbonate Ions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 10143-10152

  Barazesh, James M ^a   Prasse, Carsten ^a   Sedlak, David L ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; IMPURITIES; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; OXIDANTS; REACTION RATES; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SURFACE REACTIONS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACK GROUND ELECTROLYTE; BORON-DOPED DIAMOND ELECTRODES; CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; REVERSE OSMOSIS CONCENTRATES; TRACE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS;

CONTAMINATION;

AMINE; AMMONIA; BORON; BROMIDE; CARBONIC ACID; CHLORIDE; ELECTROLYTE; HALIDE; HALOGEN; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDIZING AGENT; TITANIUM; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIAMOND; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMINO ACID; BROMIDE; CARBONATE; CATION; DIAMOND; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; ELECTROLYTE; HALOGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; RADICAL; REVERSE OSMOSIS; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSFORMATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WATER TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

BORON; CARBONATES; DIAMOND; ELECTRODES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84988565701     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02232     Document Type: Article

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