The health risk attenuation by simultaneous elimination of atmospheric VOCs and POPs from an e-waste dismantling workshop by an integrated de-dusting with decontamination technique

Synergistic degradation performance of UV/TiO2 photocatalysis and biotrickling filtration inoculated with Aspergillus sp. S1 for gaseous m‐xylene

“…While this strategy can increase the volume load, BTF biofilms may proliferate, resulting in biomass accumulation and BTF collapse for immediate treatment of VOCs 11 . Thus, some researchers have combined PCO with BTF to overcome the drawbacks of separate systems to achieve higher removal of hydrophobic VOCs 19‐22 . Nevertheless, in the existing studies, PCO is mostly placed after BTF to improve the quality of the outlet gas, and the biofilm is mainly composed of bacteria.…”

“…11 Thus, some researchers have combined PCO with BTF to overcome the drawbacks of separate systems to achieve higher removal of hydrophobic VOCs. [19][20][21][22] Nevertheless, in the existing studies, PCO is mostly placed after BTF to improve the quality of the outlet gas, and the biofilm is mainly composed of bacteria. Further optimization of the integrated system configuration and the operating parameters is still necessary.…”

Inhibit the formation of toxic methylphenolic by-products in photo-decomposition of formaldehyde–toluene/xylene mixtures by Pd cocatalyst on TiO2

“…As volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are major causes of many chronic lung diseases and cancers [1][2][3], the development of efficient purification technology as a prerequisite for ensuring high quality in-door air is a subject of ever increasing interest [4][5][6][7]. Among various approaches, photocatalysis based processes have attracted great atten-tion for the decomposition of VOCs owing to the following advantages.…”

Thermal degradation and pollutant emission from waste printed circuit boards mounted with electronic components

“…Solder melting by thermal treatment with infra-red heater, hot air, or heating furnace is an important step during the removal of ECs. During the heating process, the organic materials, including board resin, plastics, brominated flame retardants (BFRs) contained in WPCB-ECs are degraded, and pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (An et al, 2014;Chen et al, 2016;He et al, 2015), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are emitted to the environment, thus causing contamination in the workshop and environmental pollution of surrounding areas (Ortuño et al, 2014a). Emission characteristics of pollutants such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) (Die et al, 2019;Guo et al, 2015a, b), polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs) (Xiao et al, 2016), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), released from thermal treatment of WPCB have been investigated extensively (Li et al, 2018;Cai et al, 2018a, b;Duan et al, 2011;Soler et al, 2017;Ortuño et al, 2014b).…”