“…Commercial catalytic wet oxidation processes rely on both, homogeneous such as Fe 2þ or Cu 2þ and heterogeneous catalysts such as noble metals: iridium (Ir) gold (Au), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rh) and rhenium (Re), and ruthenium (Ru); metal oxides: FeO(OH), CuO-ZnO; and mixed metallic catalysts Fe-Cu-Mn, Cu-Zn, CoAlPO 4 -5 and CeO 2 , Fe-CeO 2 , perovskite-type oxide LaFeO 3 , and heteropolyacids (HPAs) or the supported precious metal and/ or base metal oxide catalysts Mikulova et al, 2007;Yang et al, 2007;Carrier et al, 2009;Li et al, 2009b;Zhang et al, 2009b). The support materials that can be employed to enhance the CWAO are CeO 2 , TiO 2 -CeO 2 , TiO 2 , ZrO 2 and graphite, activated carbon, Al 2 O 3 , and carbon nanofibres (Oliviero et al, 2000;Chang et al, 2003;Milone et al, 2006;Quintanilla et al, 2007;Rodriguez et al, 2008).…”