Publications by authors named "Suiqin Yang"

The positive contributions of carriers to aerobic granulation have been wildly appreciated. In this study, as a way resource utilization, the dredged sediment was thermally-treated to prepared as carriers to promote aerobic granular sludge (AGS) formation and stability. The system was started under low superficial gas velocity (SGV, 0.

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Industrial wastewater should be treated with caution due to its potential environmental risks. In this study, a polymerization-based cathode/Fe/peroxydisulfate (PDS) process was employed for the first time to treat a raw coking wastewater, which can achieve simultaneous organics abatement and recovery by converting organic contaminants into separable solid organic-polymers. The results confirm that several dominant organic contaminants in coking wastewater such as phenol, cresols, quinoline and indole can be induced to polymerize by self-coupling or cross-coupling.

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Advanced oxidation processes for the treatment of organic pollutants in wastewater suffer from difficulties in mineralization, potential risks of dissolved residues, and high oxidant consumption. In this study, radical-initiated polymerization is dominated in an UV/peroxydisulfate (PDS) process to eliminate organic pollutant of pharmaceutical metoprolol (MTP). Compared with an ideal degradation-based UV/PDS process, the present process can save four fifths of PDS consumption at the same dissolved organic carbon removal of 47.

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Degradation of organics in high-salinity wastewater is beneficial to meeting the requirement of zero liquid discharge for coking wastewater treatment. Creating efficient and stable performance catalysts for high-salinity wastewater treatment is vital in catalytic ozonation process. Compared with ozonation alone, Mn and Ce co-doped γ-AlO could remarkably enhance activities of catalytic ozonation for chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal (38.

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  • - The study examines how using an electrochemical process combined with ultraviolet light can effectively break down micropollutants in wastewater containing chlorine, focusing on substances like atrazine, primidone, ibuprofen, and carbamazepine.
  • - Results showed high degradation efficiencies (up to 99.8%) after just 15 minutes of treatment, with factors like increased current and UV light improving the process, while compounds like bicarbonate and humic acid hindered it.
  • - The research also investigates the mechanisms of how these pollutants are degraded, identifying free radicals generated during the process and outlining their contributions, which highlights the potential for this combined method to save energy compared to traditional methods.
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A novel approach to the abatement of pollutants consisting of their conversion to separable solid polymers is explored by a heat/persulfate (PDS) process for the treatment of high-temperature wastewaters. During this process, a simultaneous decontamination and carbon recovery can be achieved with minimal use of PDS, which is significantly different from conventional degradation processes. The feasibility of this process is demonstrated by eight kinds of typical organic pollutants and by a real coking wastewater.

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Ubiquitous chloride ion (Cl) in wastewaters usually inhibits the degradation of organic contaminants and generates numerous toxic chlorinated products in conventional degradation-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Herein, a more Cl tolerant polymerization-based electrochemical AOP for organic contaminants abatement and simultaneous organic resource recovery was demonstrated with eight typical organic contaminants and two real industrial wastewaters for the first time. This process can significantly promote dissolved organic carbon (DOC) abatement in the presence of Cl, differing greatly from conventional degradation-based processes.

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Treatment of highly contaminated wastewaters containing refractory or toxic organic contaminants (e.g. industrial wastewaters) is becoming a global challenge.

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  • - The study investigates the limitations of traditional methods (competitive kinetics and scavenging assay) for measuring radical concentrations in electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) due to interference from electrodes.
  • - It identifies benzoic acid (BA) as a suitable competitor for determining hydroxyl radical concentration ([HO]) in anode processes, while also finding BA to be the most stable option in cathode processes compared to other compounds.
  • - For simultaneous measurement of sulfate radicals ([SO]) and hydroxyl radicals ([HO]), a new two-step method combining scavenging and competitive kinetics using tert-butyl alcohol and BA is proposed, with both experimental results and kinetic analysis supporting its reliability.
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  • The study analyzed how various cathode materials (platinum, copper, and iron) affect the degradation of iohexol in a cathode/Fe/PMS process, highlighting that optimal conditions vary by cathode type.
  • At higher current inputs (2.0 mA/cm), the performance of all cathodes was similar, but at lower current inputs, the order of effectiveness was Fe-cathode > Cu-cathode > Pt-cathode due to varying levels of corrosion.
  • The research also found that the degradation mechanisms differed by cathode: sulfate radicals (SO) were more significant for the Cu-cathode, while hydroxyl radicals (OH) dominated for the Pt and Fe cathodes, leading to distinct
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Copper was used as a non-inert cathode material in a Cathode/Fe/peroxymonosulfate(PMS) system, and the performance of this novel Cu-cathode/Fe/PMS system was tested with a typical iodinated X-ray contrast media (iohexol) as target organics. The reaction mechanisms and the iohexol degradation pathways were investigated. The operational conditions of Cu-cathode/Fe/PMS process on iohexol degradation were optimized to be 1.

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