Abstract:In recent years, the advanced oxidation process of activated percarbonate has been applied to treat various organic pollutants in water by many scholars due to its low cost, safety and stability, which is expected to become a new environment-friendly water treatment technology. By reviewing a large number of domestic and foreign literatures in the past decade, the mechanism of activating percarbonate for oxidative degradation of organic pollutants was summarized, and the different activation methods and reaction mechanisms of percarbonate such as homogeneous activation, heterogeneous activation, physical activation, combined activation were systematically reviewed. The research status of activated percarbonate advanced oxidation process applied to the degradation of various organic pollutants in wastewater, membrane pollution control, sludge dewatering and sludge anaerobic digestion were also described. Finally, the problems of activated percarbonate advanced oxidation process in the field of water treatment research were pointed out, and the key research directions in the future were prospected, with a view to providing a reference for the further popularization and application of this technology in water pollution control.