A method for treating highly concentrated resin-desorption liquid generated from wastewater deep purification, including channeling the highly concentrated desorption liquid generated from anion exchange resin treatment through a nanofiltration membrane, the liquid being separated into nanofiltration permeate that can be reused as the desorption agent and highly concentrated nanofiltration retentate; adding a coagulating agent to the highly concentrated nanofiltration retentate to generate coagulation-precipitation; subjecting the supernatant formed after the coagulation-precipitation process to Fenton oxidation or ozone oxidation; after the reaction, adding to the liquid an alkali solution for further coagulation-precipitation; then channeling the liquid so treated back to the biochemical system of biochemical effluent treatment for further biodegradation is provided. The recycled treatment of the highly concentrated desorption liquid consequently reduces the treatment cost and prevents secondary pollution by realizing innocuous treatment and reclamation of resin-desorption liquid as well as reduction of its total volume.

In an anode and cathode synergistic electrocatalytic system for wastewater treatment and an application, an electrode having a dual function is used as a cathode. The cathode and an anode are sequentially arranged in a crisscrossed and parallel mode and fixed into an electrode group. The electrode group is paced in a reaction tank which has an aeration device at the bottom thereof, separately connecting the cathode and the anode of the electrode group to a power supply. Electrocatalytic degradation is performed on wastewater. In the electrocatalytic degradation process, a synergistic electrocatalytic degradation effect of the anode and the cathode is achieved by the mutual coordination of heterogeneous electro-fenton of the cathode and oxidation of the anode. The cathode ad anode synergistic electrocatalytic process has a good wastewater treatment effect, high current efficiency, low energy consumption, and low operation and maintenance costs.

The present invention is a method for removing a biofilm containing a metal and formed in a water system, wherein the biofilm is brought into contact with (a) a compound having a hydroxyl radical generation ability and (b) a reducing agent.

A water treatment composition for treating organic wastewater is provided. The water treatment composition includes a bulk catalytic material and an oxidant. The bulk catalytic material includes iron atoms or ions, manganese atoms or ions, and magnesium atoms or ions.

Copper-boron-ferrite (CuBFe) composites may be prepared and immobilized on graphite electrodes in a silica-based sol-gel, e.g., from rice husks. Different bimetallic loading ratios can produce fast in-situ electrogeneration of reactive oxygen species, H.sub.2O.sub.2 and .Math.OH, e.g., via droplet flow-assisted heterogeneous electro-Fenton reactor system. Loading ratios of, e.g., 10 to 30 wt. % Fe.sup.3+ and 5 to 15% wt. Cu.sup.2+, can improve the catalytic activities towards pharmaceutical beta blockers (atenolol and propranolol) degradation in water. Degradation efficiencies of at least 99.9% for both propranolol and atenolol in hospital wastewater were demonstrated. Radicals of .Math.OH in degradation indicate a surface mechanism at inventive cathodes with correlated contributions of iron and copper. Copper and iron can be embedded in porous graphite electrode surface and catalyze the conversion of H.sub.2O.sub.2 to .Math.OH to enhance the degradation. Inventive cathodes can be stable catalytically after 20 or more cycles under neutral and acidic conditions.

A method of removing chemical contaminants from a composition comprising an active, a solvent, and a contaminant can include providing an initial feed supply, wherein the initial feed supply comprises the active, the solvent, and the contaminant, wherein the contaminant can include 1,4 dioxane, dimethyl dioxane, or a combination thereof; including filtering the initial feed stock through a nanofilter.

An embodiment relates to a catalyst for decomposing non-degradable pollutants and a non-degradable pollutant decomposition system including the same, and more specifically, to a catalyst for an electro-/nonelectro-Fenton reaction system, the catalyst including at least one of 1) non-reducible transition metal oxide particles having a reduced surface, or 2) non-reducible transition metal oxide particles functionalized with H.sub.3ZPO.sub.4.sup.Z (Z=1 to 3) and having a reduced surface; an electrode including the catalyst for the electro-/nonelectro-Fenton reaction system; and an electro-/nonelectro-Fenton reaction system using the electrode, for efficient decomposition of non-degradable organic matter.

The present invention discloses a method for nitrogen removal of wastewater, which achieves the perfect combination of COD removal (Fenton oxidation) and nitrogen removal (Feammox) of wastewater, thereby avoiding the waste of reagents in traditional Fenton oxidation treatment of wastewater.

The disclosure provides a porous manganese-containing Fenton catalytic material and a preparation method and use thereof. The porous manganese-containing Fenton catalytic material according to the disclosure includes particles with a cluster structure and the particles with the cluster structure include a porous-structure calcium oxide and two-dimensional nanosheets of a MnCa compound on a surface of the porous-structure calcium oxide.

Copper-boron-ferrite (CuBFe) composites may be prepared and immobilized on graphite electrodes in a silica-based sol-gel, e.g., from rice husks. Different bimetallic loading ratios can produce fast in-situ electrogeneration of reactive oxygen species, H.sub.2O.sub.2 and .Math.OH, e.g., via droplet flow-assisted heterogeneous electro-Fenton reactor system. Loading ratios of, e.g., 10 to 30 wt. % Fe.sup.3+ and 5 to 15% wt. Cu.sup.2+, can improve the catalytic activities towards pharmaceutical beta blockers (atenolol and propranolol) degradation in water. Degradation efficiencies of at least 99.9% for both propranolol and atenolol in hospital wastewater were demonstrated. Radicals of .Math.OH in degradation indicate a surface mechanism at inventive cathodes with correlated contributions of iron and copper. Copper and iron can be embedded in porous graphite electrode surface and catalyze the conversion of H.sub.2O.sub.2 to .Math.OH to enhance the degradation. Inventive cathodes can be stable catalytically after 20 or more cycles under neutral and acidic conditions.