MINI REVIEW article
Front. Chem.
Sec. Green and Sustainable Chemistry
This article is part of the Research TopicAdvanced Oxidation and Adsorption Technologies to Tackle Water PollutionView all articles
Enhanced Water Treatment via Combined Oxidation and Adsorption: A Synergistic Approach
Provisionally accepted
- 1Key Laboratory of Yangtze Aquatic Environment, Yibin Research base, Yibin University, Yibin 644000, China., Yibin, China
- 2Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada di Dio Sant ’Agata, 98166 Messina, Italy, Missina, Italy
- 3College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food Engineering, Yibin University, Yibin, Sichuan, China, Yibin, China
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Organic micropollutants are still a major environmental and public health problem because they accumulate in all water source over the world. Because standard treatment is ineffective at the low concentrations at which these contaminants are present to remove, there is an urgent need to find better tertiary treatments for wastewater. The key points covered in this review are adsorption and Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). The use of certain adsorption materials makes it possible to selectively sequestrate impurities, while in the case of AOPs destructive processes are performed by means of reactive radicals leading to mineralization of pollutants. These methods complement each other and provide both efficiency, waste reduction, and sustainability benefits-providing a synergy of their strengths. The AOP adsorption hybrids reported in this paper represent one of the emerging types of water-treatment units, which are particularly relevant given the high demand for improved tertiary treatment technologies capable of effectively removing persistent micropollutants from wastewater.
Keywords: Adsorption, advanced oxidation processes, and Biochar, Micropollutants, Water treatment
Received: 16 Nov 2025; Accepted: 09 Dec 2025.
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* Correspondence: Walid Tahri
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