“…Recently, sulfate radical (SO 4 ,À )-based AOPs have drawn much interests Yun et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2018) due to their higher oxidation potentials (SO 4 ,À , 2.5-3.1 eV) compared with hydroxyl radical ( , OH, 2.8 eV), longer half-life, higher selectivity (Li et al, 2018;Huang et al, 2017;Hu et al, 2017), and tolerance to wider pH range (2-8) (Ghanbari and Moradi, 2017). Peroxymonosulfate (PMS) molecules are widely used as a source for sulfate radicals in AOPs, which can be activated during the treatment process through various methods such as heating (Chen et al, 2016), UV light (Guan et al, 2011), transition metal ions, and ultrasound (Liu et al, 2017;Du et al, 2018a). Dionysiou et al found that PMS can be activated by various transition metals, among which Co(II) and Ru(III) demonstrated the best performances as catalysts for generating sulfate radicals Dionysiou, 2003, 2004).…”