High levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) in edible fish in the Baltic Sea have raised health concerns in the Baltic region and the rest of Europe. Thus, there are urgent needs to characterize sources in order to formulate effective mitigation strategies. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of past and present sour...

Chlorinated aromatic compounds are important raw materials or intermediates in many industries, but they highly toxic and difficult to degrade the natural environment. Electrocatalytic dechlorination technology can transform chlorinated with high toxicity into substances low easy degradation, so it has broad application prospects. Compared other metal catalysts, Pd-based catalysts have highest ...

Since they often inhibit abundant bacteriological populations in municipal wastewater treatment plants, alternative treatment methods should be investigated – including advanced oxidation processes. This paper studies the degradation of three representatives of phenolic compounds using the Fenton system in the presence of chlorides and sulfates: phenol, 2-chlorophenol and 2-nitrophenol. The pre...

A gas-permeable silicone membrane bioreactor was used to cultivate the biofilm under hydrogenotrophic condition for reductive dechlorination of 2-chlorophenol (2-CP). The anaerobic sludge obtained from a swine wastewater treatment plant was immobilized by polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) so as to form a biofilm on the surface of the silicone tube. After acclimating for about 4 months, the bioreactor sho...