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Electrochemical treatment of wastewater containing NaCl. Methods to increase the removal of organic pollutants and minimize the formation of toxic by…

In many cases, wastewater can contain both organic pollutants and NaCl. Electrochemical methods allow to treat very effectively organic pollutants in the presence of NaCl. However, the utilization on an applicative scale of this route is limited by the fact that usually the high removals of organics is coupled with the generation of significant amounts of chlorinated by-products. The role of several operative parameters on the performances of the process was systematically evaluated using phenol as a model organic pollutant. It was shown that the removal of phenol and TOC and the generation of many by-products including chlorophenols, chloroacetic acids, chlorate and perchlorate dramaticall…