Removal of organic compounds and trace metals from oil sands process-affected water using zero valent iron enhanced by petroleum coke

Alternative Approach to Current EU BAT Recommendation for Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas Desulfurization Wastewater Treatment

“…AOPs, such as the Fenton process and its modifications, proved to be very effective in various wastewater treatments [19]. Metallic iron and other iron-based catalysts were used, interalia, for the treatment of pharmaceuticals [20,21], trinitrotoluene (TNT) wastewater [22], phenols and chlorophenols [23,24], pesticides [25], bisphenol A (BPA) [26], landfill leachate [27] or coking wastewater [28], palm oil mill effluent [29], nitrite reduction [30], oil sands reclamation [31], surfactant removal [32], and hydraulic fracturing flow back fluid treatment [33].…”

Effects of different pretreatments on the performance of ceramic ultrafiltration membrane during the treatment of oil sands tailings pond recycle water: A pilot-scale study

“…Various physical, chemical, and biological treatments have been assessed to develop cost-effective strategies for RCW remediation (Drzewicz et al, 2012;Gamal El-Din et al, 2011;He et al, 2010;Islam et al, 2014;Kim et al, 2013;Peng et al, 2004;Pourrezaei et al, 2014Pourrezaei et al, , 2011Zubot et al, 2012). Natural in situ microbial degradation in tailings ponds has proven to be very slow (Han et al, 2009).…”

Rapid degradation of endosulfan by zero-valent zinc in water and soil

“…Zero-valent metal (ZVM) has been known as an efficient reductant for dealing with the contaminants since the late 1980s (Pourrezaei et al, 2014). Extensive studies on the reduction of pesticides have been focused on the remediation of groundwater and surface water, for example, studies on the remediation of water contaminated by DDT (Sayles et al, 1997), atrazine and parathion (Ghauch et al, 1999), s-triazines (Ghauch and Suptil, 2000), carbaryl , benomyl, picloram, and dicamba (Ghauch, 2001), nitroaromatic pesticides (Keum and Li, 2004), flutriafol (Ghauch, 2008), chlorothalonil (Ghauch and Tuqan, 2008), and thiobencarb (Amin et al, 2008).…”