Hazardous organic pollutants have been attracting heightened interest in recent years due to their persisting properties, low biodegradability, and negative influence on aquatic life, wildlife, and humans even at low concentrations. Considering their dangerous effect on the environment, several treatments using different techniques were adopted to remove them from water and wastewater. Herein, electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs), especially anodic oxidation (AO), electro-Fenton (EF), heterogeneous electro-Fenton (HEF), and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF), have been thoroughly reviewed and found to be promising compared to conventional methods. The state of the art of the previous treatment processes has been discussed in detail, where each technique has its own merits and challenges. These processes depend on their operating conditions mainly pH, current density, nature of electrodes used, and conductivity of the solution, etc. The efficiencies of EAOPs follows the order as PEF > EF > AO and can mineralize the recalcitrant organic pollutants completely.

危险的有机污染物由于其持久的特性，低的生物降解性以及低浓度对水生生物，野生生物和人类的负面影响，近年来引起了人们的极大关注。考虑到它们对环境的危害，采用了几种使用不同技术的处理方法将其从水和废水中去除。在本文中，对电化学高级氧化工艺（EAOP），特别是阳极氧化（AO），电芬顿（EF），异质电芬顿（HEF）和光电子芬顿（PEF）进行了彻底的回顾，并发现有希望进行比较常规方法。已经详细讨论了先前处理过程的技术水平，其中每种技术都有其自身的优点和挑战。