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Reviews

Application of peroxymonosulfate and its activation methods for degradation of environmental organic pollutants: Review

F. Ghanbari and M. Moradi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Applications of metal-organic frameworks in adsorption/separation processes via hydrogen bonding interactions

I. Ahmed and S.H. Jhung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Environmental Chemical Engineering

Behavior of activated carbon cloths used as electrode in electrochemical processes

M. Gineys, R. Benoit, N. Cohaut, F. Beguin and S. Delpeux-Ouldriane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Advance treatment of chemical industrial tailwater by integrated electrochemical technologies: Electrocatalysis, electrodialysis and

electro-microfiltration

K. Wei, C. Shen, W. Han, J. Li, X. Sun, J. Shen and L. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Optimizing the removal of organophosphorus pesticide malathion from water using multi-walled carbon nanotubes

M.H. Dehghani, Z.S. Niasar, M.R. Mehrnia, M. Shayeghi, M.A. Al-Ghouti, B. Heibati, G. McKay and K. Yetilmezsoy . . . . 22

Activated biochars reduce the exposure of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in industrially contaminated soils

M. Kołtowski, I. Hilber, T.D. Bucheli, B. Charmas, J. Skubiszewska-Zieba and P. Oleszczuk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Determination and correlation of the partition coefficients of 48 volatile organic and environmentally relevant compounds between

air and silicone oil

M.J. Patel, S.C. Popat and M.A. Deshusses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Construction of up-converting fluorescent carbon quantum dots/Bi20TiO32 composites with enhanced photocatalytic properties

under visible light

R. Xie, L. Zhang, H. Xu, Y. Zhong, X. Sui and Z. Mao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Light-emitting diodes as an emerging UV source for UV/chlorine oxidation: Carbamazepine degradation and toxicity changes

W.-L. Wang, Q.-Y. Wu, Z.-M. Li, Y. Lu, Y. Du, T. Wang, N. Huang and H.-Y. Hu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Preparation, characterization and catalytic activity of a novel mesoporous nanocrystalline MgO nanoparticle for ozonation of

acetaminophen as an emerging water contaminant

A. Mashayekh-Salehi, G. Moussavi and K. Yaghmaeian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

In-situ catalytic oxidation of Hg0 via a gas diffusion electrode

Y. Xu, L. Cao, W. Sun and J. Yang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

One-pot synthesis of NiFe2O4 integrated with EDTA-derived carbon dots for enhanced removal of tetracycline

F. Liu, W. Zhang, W. Chen, J. Wang, Q. Yang, W. Zhu and J. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

A facile one-pot cation-anion double hydrolysis approach to the synthesis of supported MgO/c-Al2O3 with enhanced adsorption

performance towards CO2

S. Zhang, W. Cai, J. Yu, C. Ji and N. Zhao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

In situ gasification Chemical-Looping Combustion of coal using limestone as oxygen carrier precursor and sulphur sorbent

A. Abad, M. de las Obras-Loscertales, F. Garcıa-Labiano, L.F. de Diego, P. Gayan and J. Adanez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Efficiency vs. productivity in photoreactors, a case study on photochemical separation of Eu

M.E. Leblebici, B. Van den Bogaert, G.D. Stefanidis and T. Van Gerven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Kinetics and operational parameters for 1,4-dioxane degradation by the photoelectro-peroxone process

W. Shen, Y. Wang, J. Zhan, B. Wang, J. Huang, S. Deng and G. Yu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

High-rate thiosulfate-driven denitrification at pH lower than 5 in fluidized-bed reactor

F. Di Capua M.Sc.(Eng.), A.-M. Lakaniemi, J.A. Puhakka, P.N.L. Lens and G. Esposito . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

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Co-Editors:Environmental Chemical Engineering:Professor T. Aminabhavi, Pharmaceutical Engineering, College of Pharmacy, Dharwad, 580 002, IndiaProfessor Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DBCEE),705 Engineering Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012Professor Stephen Allen, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern IrelandKartik Chandran, Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027

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Interaction of sulfonated graphene oxide with U(VI) studied by spectroscopic analysis and theoretical calculations

Y. Sun, X. Wang, Y. Ai, Z. Yu, W. Huang, C. Chen, T. Hayat, A. Alsaedi and X. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

KOH-activated carbon aerogels derived from sodium carboxymethyl cellulose for high-performance supercapacitors and dye

adsorption

M. Yu, J. Li and L. Wang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Biowaste-derived substances as a tool for obtaining magnet-sensitive materials for environmental applications in wastewater

treatments

F. Franzoso, R. Nistico, F. Cesano, I. Corazzari, F. Turci, D. Scarano, A. Bianco Prevot, G. Magnacca, L. Carlos and

D.O. Martire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Effects of carbon nanotubes on physicochemical properties and sulfamethoxazole adsorption of sediments with or without aging

processes

X. Fan, C. Wang, P. Wang, J. Hou and J. Qian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Model based prediction of nanostructured thin film morphology in an aerosol chemical vapor deposition process

T.S. Chadha, M. Yang, K. Haddad, V.B. Shah, S. Li and P. Biswas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Numerical simulations of liquid-liquid flow in a continuous gravity settler using OpenFOAM and experimental verification

S.K. Panda, K.K. Singh, K.T. Shenoy and V.V. Buwa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Fluidized-bed measurements of carefully-characterized, mildly-cohesive (Group A) particles

C.Q. LaMarche, P. Liu, K.M. Kellogg and C.M. Hrenya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Influence of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) and hydrocracking (HC) conditions on the product distribution of an integrated

FTS-HC process

C. Sun, T. Zhan, P. Pfeifer and R. Dittmeyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Materials Synthesis and Processing

Green preparation and selective permeation of DD-Tryptophan imprinted composite membrane for racemic tryptophan

Z. Zhou, L. He, Y. Mao, W. Chai and Z. Ren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Novel synthetic strategy towards BaFCl and BaFCl:Eu2+ nanofibers with photoluminescence properties

C. Zheng, D. Li, Q. Ma, Y. Song, X. Dong, X. Wang, W. Yu, J. Wang and G. Liu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

A novel strategy of fabricating high performance UV-resistant aramid fibers with simultaneously improved surface activity, thermal

and mechanical properties through building polydopamine and graphene oxide bi-layer coatings

J. Zhu, L. Yuan, Q. Guan, G. Liang and A. Gu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Facile scalable synthesis of MoO2 nanoparticles by new solvothermal cracking process and their application to hole transporting

layer for CH3NH3PbI3 planar perovskite solar cells

H. Choi, J.H. Heo, S. Ha, B.W. Kwon, S.P. Yoon, J. Han, W.-S. Kim, S.H. Im and J. Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Short Communication

Plasma assisted dry reforming of methanol for clean syngas production and high-efficiency CO2 conversion

H. Zhang, X. Li, F. Zhu, K. Cen, C. Du and X. Tu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

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