“…The supercritical water oxidation (SCWO), as an environmentally friendly management approach for aqueous wastes, can achieve effective and complete harmless disposal for organic wastes. − When both the temperature and pressure rise above the critical point ( P c = 22.1 MPa, T c = 374.1 °C), the properties of water change dramatically, such as the density of hydrogen bonding and the dielectric constant in water prominently decrease, and the supercritical water (SCW) becomes a nonpolar medium. These changes contribute to the reaction of organics and oxidant in a homogeneous phase which eliminates the mass transfer resistance and therefore guarantees the high reaction rate, but gives rise to the low solubility of inorganic salts. , Not only that, the supercritical water can participate in the decomposition process of pollutants in the form of reactants or products, providing active free radicals required for the reaction and further promoting the treatment of wastes. , However, from the point of view of a practical application of SCWO, there still exist the three inevitable problems of corrosion, salt deposition, and high cost that significantly hinder the development of this technology on the industrial scale. ,, At present, in a commercial SCWO system those above issues are solved primarily by two ways: special reactor design and process control method, wherein the addition of auxiliary fuel into main streams was one of the effective solutions for the latter. The oxidation of cofuel compounds not only could provide the required energy for heating reaction streams, it also could facilitate the destruction of refractory components by the co-oxidation effect.…”