PMID- 27054668 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20170519 LR - 20170519 IS - 1873-3336 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3894 (Linking) VI - 313 DP - 2016 Aug 5 TI - Mechanochemical destruction of halogenated organic pollutants: A critical review. PG - 85-102 LID - S0304-3894(16)30299-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.03.076 [doi] AB - Many tons of intentionally produced obsolete halogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs), are stored worldwide in stockpiles, often in an unsafe manner. These are a serious threat to the environment and to human health due to their ability to migrate and accumulate in the biosphere. New technologies, alternatives to combustion, are required to destroy these substances, hopefully to their complete mineralization. In the last 20 years mechanochemical destruction has shown potential to achieve pollutant degradation, both of the pure substances and in contaminated soils. This capability has been tested for many halogenated pollutants, with various reagents, and under different milling conditions. In the present paper, a review of the published work in this field is followed by a critique of the state of the art of POPs mechanochemical destruction and its applicability to full-scale halogenated waste treatment. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Cagnetta, Giovanni AU - Cagnetta G AD - State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKJLESPC), Beijing Key Laboratory of Emerging Organic Contaminants Control (BKLEOCC), School of Environment, POPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. FAU - Robertson, John AU - Robertson J AD - School of Applied Sciences, AUT University, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. FAU - Huang, Jun AU - Huang J AD - State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKJLESPC), Beijing Key Laboratory of Emerging Organic Contaminants Control (BKLEOCC), School of Environment, POPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. Electronic address: huangjun@tsinghua.edu.cn. FAU - Zhang, Kunlun AU - Zhang K AD - State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKJLESPC), Beijing Key Laboratory of Emerging Organic Contaminants Control (BKLEOCC), School of Environment, POPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. FAU - Yu, Gang AU - Yu G AD - State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKJLESPC), Beijing Key Laboratory of Emerging Organic Contaminants Control (BKLEOCC), School of Environment, POPs Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20160330 PL - Netherlands TA - J Hazard Mater JT - Journal of hazardous materials JID - 9422688 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Halogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) OT - High energy milling OT - Mechanochemistry OT - Non-thermal destruction EDAT- 2016/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2016/04/08 06:01 CRDT- 2016/04/08 06:00 PHST- 2015/11/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/03/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/03/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/04/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/04/08 06:01 [medline] AID - S0304-3894(16)30299-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.03.076 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Hazard Mater. 2016 Aug 5;313:85-102. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.03.076. Epub 2016 Mar 30.