“…A variety of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been applied to remove phenolic compounds from wastewaters. AOPs, such as hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) [2], Fenton's reagent [3,4], ultrasound/hydrogen peroxide (US/H 2 O 2 ) [5], ultraviolet/hydrogen peroxide (UV/H 2 O 2 ) [6,7], ozone/hydrogen peroxide (O 3 /H 2 O 2 ) [8][9][10], ultrasound/ozone (US/O 3 ) [11][12][13][14], photocatalytic oxidation [15], and electrochemical oxidation [16,17], can accelerate the nonselective oxidation by the in situ generation of hydroxyl radical ( $ OH) and other reactive oxygen intermediates. Hydrogen peroxide and ozone have been shown previously to be effective for the removal of phenol from wastewater [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8]10,11,17], while others have shown that microwave (MW) irradiation enhances the performance of conventional AOPs [18][19][20][21].…”