Advanced Ozonation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Ozone has been actively and widely employed in water and wastewater treatment, but the utilization of ozone alone is insufficient for purifying and disinfecting water to the emission standard of real-world situations because of its selective oxidation behaviour. With the assistance of catalysts (especially heterogeneous catalysts) and coupling with other effective technologies such as the Fenton process, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, ultrasound, microwave, and ceramic membranes, ozone can be effectively activated into more powerful reactive oxygen species (especially hydroxyl radicals). These combined technologies lead to an enhanced efficiency and complete mineralization capability that open up the method for more practical applications.

Advanced Ozonation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment introduces the state-of-the-art catalysts used in catalytic ozonation and various combined processes with ozone. The reaction mechanisms, process kinetics, structure–property–activity relationships of catalysts, effects of operation parameters in these processes and the present state of practical applications and future trends are also discussed, making this a useful reference both for water treatment professionals and for those researching ozonation processes.

Yongbing Xie is an associate Professor in Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). He graduated from Tianjin University in 2009, and after two years working as a postdoc, he became an assistant professor in IPE. His research interests includes novel materials synthesis and advanced technologies for organic wastewater treatment. He has published 77 peer-reviewed papers with total citation over 2200 (H-index: 26 google scholar), such as Journal of American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, ACS Catalysis, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Catalysis B, and etc. He has applied 18 Chinese patents and 3 American patents (with 9 authorized in total). He is the principal investigator of 10 projects from government and industry, and associate editor of Journal of Environmental Engineering, deputy director of young editorial board of industrial wastewater treatment and member of young editorial board of Chinese Chemical Letters.

Yuxian Wang is currently an associate professor at College of Chemical Engineering and Environment, China University of Petroleum-Beijing. He obtained his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Shaobin Wang and Prof. Hongqi Sun at Curtin University in 2016. In the same year, he joined China University of Petroleum-Beijing. His research interests include environmental remediation by advanced oxidation techniques and the corresponding catalytic mechanisms analysis. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in Journal of American Chemical Society, ACS Catalysis, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, etc. with over 2500 citations and an H-index of 22 (Google Scholar).

Jiadong Xiao is currently a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Kazunari Domen at Shinshu University in Japan and a research fellow in Japan Technological Research Association of Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Process (ARPChem). He obtained his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Hongbin Cao at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018, and was a joint Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Angelika Brückner at Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Germany in 2016-2018. He did postdoctoral research with Prof. Bert M. Weckhuysen at Utrecht University in The Netherlands in 2018-2019 before moving to Japan. His research interest includes advanced oxidation processes, environmental chemistry, catalytic in-situ/operando studies, and solar photocatalysis for overall water splitting. He has published around 30 peer-reviewed articles in Accounts of Chemical Research, ACS Catalysis, Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Catalysis B, Journal of American Chemical Society, etc. with over 1000 citations and H-index of 17 (Google Scholar).