An Overview of Electron Accelerator Applications in Environmental Protection with an Emerging Pollutants Decomposing approach

Bachground: In recent years, problems related to environmental damage and natural resource degradation are receiving increased attention from researchers throughout the world. This occurs mostly, through un-eco-friendly technology used to produce industrial products. Therefore, eco-friendly science and technology (green technology) which can empower and control the existing coal power plant for the virtue of society and the earth is required. Today, the design and application of electron accelerator has been well developed due to reliability, larger capacity, greater energy range, and cost reduction. Technologies that use particle accelerators are considered critical to advance high-tech processes in various economic fields, including material processing, sterilization of medical products, environmental protection, medicine, cargo inspection, chemical analysis, nuclear energy, etc. High-energy and high-power beams pose the ability to alter the physical, chemical, and biological properties of materials on an industrial scale. This technology has received more attention than other conventional treatment methods due to the need for smaller areas, high electrical efficiency, and production of by-products such as fertilizers. The electronic beam process in the treatment of off-gas, wastewater, and sludge, as well as the decomposition of emerging contaminants, is mentioned as a non-chemical, additive-free process that uses radiolysis to effectively decompose contaminants. The literature addresses various applications of electron accelerators in order to modify the physical, chemical, or biological properties of industrial pollutants in the liquid, solid, and gas phases through treatment by ionizing radiation to control environmental pollution. Many advantages can be achieved through this method, which is known as radiation processing.