This comprehensive review focuses on the different factors, modification in the synthesis method, characterization and application of heterogeneous catalyst in the wastewater treatment based on the Fenton process. The present review highlights the different catalyst preparation methods like wet impregnation method, hydrothermal method, sol-gel method, precipitation method and their application to treat different recalcitrant organic chemicals. Major heterogeneous catalyst synthesis methods were discussed with their excellent workability. The importance of modification through physical and chemical method  was  also reported. Different catalyst, pollutants and optimum parametric conditions available in the literature along with some relevant studies are summarized. The effect of factors like pH, calcination and some other modifiers on the synthesis and their efficiency in the wastewater treatment has been described. The important characterization of synthesized catalysts explaining their working efficiency has also been discussed. In the final section, the application of heterogeneous catalyst synthesized by different methods in the wastewater/effluent treatment has been investigated. The main aim of this review is to find out the influence of process parameters and catalytic method on degradation/decolorization of organic compounds present in industrial or synthetic wastewater. Copyright © 2020 BCREC Group. All rights reserved

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Wastewater of sugar industries has high pollutant load due to presence of organic and inorganic materials. Discharge of untreated or partially treated wastewater has negative effect on environment and on life of human, plants and animals. In our present studies, it is attempted to treat sugar industry effluent (SIE) by electrocoagulation process (ECP) using mild steel (MS) as electrode material. For this purpose, three process parameters namely pH (5-9), current density (j = 34.7-104.46 A m-2) and treatment time (tR = 20-100 min) were selected to optimize process using response surface methodology (RSM). The optimum conditions were pH 6.66, j = 105.16 A m-2 and tR = 100 min. The maximum chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal of 75.98% was achieved from the optimum conditions. The predicted model by RSM showed R2 = 0.9515. After treatment of effluent, the sludge content in treated water was separated effectively by filtration and settling.

Proton exchange membranes (PEMs) were synthesized using three different compositions of poly(oxyethylene) (POE), poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), chitosan (CS) and phosphoric acid (

In this study, the degradation of mixed dye (mixture of Azure B and Congo red) was investigated using iron-loaded black soil as a catalyst via Fenton process. Ironloaded black soil catalyst was prepared by the wet impregnation method, calcined at different temperatures with varying of iron loading on black soil. Their behavior was compared through characterization techniques (FTIR and XRD). Separately, the effect of calcination and aging of catalyst was investigated on the degradation of mixed dye with optimized conditions. Significant degradation (>90% only in 10 min) was observed in optimum conditions. Toxicity measurement was done by a seed germination test which gave significant results. In the kinetic study, it was found that Behnajady-Modirshahla-Ghanbery (BMG) model was the best suited for this process compared to other models. In addition, thermodynamic properties (Gibbs free energy [∆G], activation energy [E a ], activation enthalpy [∆H], and activation entropy [∆S]) were also calculated. The stability of synthesized catalyst was found to be satisfactory.