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Journal Article 
Progress on Red Mud-Based Catalysts for the Removal of Environmental Pollutants Through Oxidation and Advanced Oxidation Process 
Das, B; Mohanty, K; , 
2020 
461-480 
Discovering an effective and efficient technique to deal with the increasing environmental pollutants with growing population and urbanization has become a major challenge for the entire scientific community. Out of many developed techniques, catalytic removal of various organic and inorganic pollutants through oxidation and advanced oxidation process (AOP) has emerged as a very successful one. Advanced oxidation process (AOP) is a worthwhile technique for the degradation of organic contaminants through the in situ generation of strong oxidants during the reaction. For both AOP and oxidation techniques, a variety of commercially available catalysts and a few waste-derived catalysts have been studied. Red mud (RM), which is a hugely produced waste from aluminum industries, contains iron (Fe) as a major component in it. Fe has been extensively studied for the oxidation and AOPs due to its easy availability and high activity. The presence of Fe (approximately 45–60%) in RM makes it very suitable as a catalyst for the oxidation and AOPs.