“…At present, numerous methods like physical method (Madannejad et al, 2018), biological method (Song et al, 2019), incineration (Peng et al, 2016), advanced oxidation processes (Li et al, 2019;Luo et al, 2018;Zhou et al, 2018), zero-valent metal reduction (Duan et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2017;Zheng et al, 2019), catalytic hydrodechlorination (HDC) (Jadbabaei et al, 2017;Ma et al, 2015;Xiong et al, 2018), etc have been applied for the elimination of chlorophenols. However, harsh reaction conditions and/or special facilities are often required in these methods, many of which are high-cost and will generate even more toxic byproducts (Guan et al, 2019;Madannejad et al, 2018;Zhao et al, 2018). Among these methods, catalytic HDC is a more prospective detoxifying technologies due to low-energy demands and the fact that the highly toxic chlorophenols are effectively transformed into less harmful products, reducing dramatically their ecotoxicity (Pizarro et al, 2017;Wu et al, 2012;Xiong et al, 2018).…”