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Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment and Modelling

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Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation (CWAO) of Industrial Wastewaters: Mechanistic Evidences, Catalyst Development and Kinetic Modeling

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Huge water consumptions and pollutants releases in the environment urge effective water decontamination technologies, fostering extensive recycle and reuse of industrial process-water and wastewater. The heterogeneous catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) offers a practical solution to the problem of decontamination of industrial effluents characterised by high concentration of toxic-refractory compounds, which are also detrimental for the active sludge of biological systems. Therefore, this work shows the superior CWAO performance of a new class of nanostructured MnCeOx catalysts toward the mineralization of some common toxic and refractory industrial pollutants. Mechanistic and kinetic evidences are summarised into a Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction mechanism, leading to a formal kinetic model predicting the CWAO performance of nanostructured MnCeOx catalysts and optimum reaction conditions.

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    F. Arena, R. Di Chio & C. Espro

  2. Istituto CNR-ITAE “Nicola Giordano”, Messina, Italy

    A. Palella & L. Spadaro

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  1. University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Giorgio Mannina

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Arena, F., Di Chio, R., Espro, C., Palella, A., Spadaro, L. (2017). Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation (CWAO) of Industrial Wastewaters: Mechanistic Evidences, Catalyst Development and Kinetic Modeling. In: Mannina, G. (eds) Frontiers in Wastewater Treatment and Modelling. FICWTM 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58421-8_56

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