摘要 |
A fluid, such as contaminated vapors or gases, or wastewater from industrial processes, contaminated ground water, a municipal wastewater stream or a municipal water supply (raw source water), is treated by passing the fluid through a bed (38) of particulate adsorbent material (42), capable of adsorbing contaminants from the fluid, preferably granular activated carbon (or GAC), whereby the bed is fluidized by the flow of the fluid and the contaminants are adsorbed on the adsorbent material as the fluid flows therethrough, and by introducing into the fluidized bed an oxidant such as UV-radiation, hydrogen peroxide, ozone, oxygen, Fenton's reagent, hydroxyl radicals, and mixtures thereof for oxidizing the contaminants adsorbed on the adsorbent material. |