“…In recent years, the presence of organic pollutants in the environment has been reported as an emerging risk to biotic life, and most of the organic pollutants cannot be effectively removed through conventional water and wastewater treatment processes (Li, Fu, Zhang, Zhang, & Wang, 2016;Yamada, 2007). In order to remove organic pollutants from aqueous solutions, various technologies have been used, such as biological processes, electrochemical degradation, photocatalysis, ultrafiltration, and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) (Kıranşan, Soltani, Hassani, Karaca, & Khataee, 2014;Liu et al, 2016;Wei et al, 2017). Among the various physicochemical processes, AOPs are considered to be more effective than many others, such as adsorption, flocculation, and nonradical based chemical oxidation (Wang et al, 2016).…”